Sec. 203.044. INITIAL DESTRUCTION OF OBSOLETE RECORDS

(a) In preparing a records control schedule required by Section 203.041, the records management officer may list separately those obsolete records no longer created or received by the local government or elective county office whose retention periods on a records retention schedule issued by the commission have expired and that the local government or elected county officer wishes to destroy.

(b) The lists of obsolete records to be destroyed must be reviewed or approved in the same manner as records control schedules must be reviewed or approved under Section 203.041(e).

(c) The lists shall be submitted to the director and librarian for approval. If the director and librarian or the designee of the director and librarian approves the list, the records listed on it may be destroyed. If the director and librarian or the designee of the director and librarian disapproves the list, the director and librarian or the designee shall state in writing within a reasonable time to the records management officer the record or records on the list that must be retained by the government or elective county office or transferred to the custody of the commission.

(d) The director and librarian shall determine the form and manner of submission of requests to destroy obsolete records.

Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1248, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.