Md. Code, State Government § 10-615
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§10–615.
Official statutory text
Except as expressly provided in § 10–619 of this subtitle, this Part III of this subtitle does not authorize:
(1) the destruction of a permanent book of account;
(2) the destruction of a land record of a clerk of a circuit court;
(3) the destruction of any record that relates to the financial operation of a unit of the State government or to collection of State taxes until the requirements of §§ 2–1220 through 2–1227 of this article are met;
(4) the destruction of any record until the expiration of the period that a statute expressly sets for that record to be kept;
(5) the destruction of any public record that a statute expressly requires to be kept permanently; or
(6) the destruction of any record of a court of record unless:
(i) the destruction is authorized under § 1–605(d)(6) or § 2–205 of the Courts Article;
(ii) an accurate transcript of the record is in use; or
(iii) the record relates to the internal management of or otherwise is a housekeeping record for an office of a clerk of court or register of wills.
(1) the destruction of a permanent book of account;
(2) the destruction of a land record of a clerk of a circuit court;
(3) the destruction of any record that relates to the financial operation of a unit of the State government or to collection of State taxes until the requirements of §§ 2–1220 through 2–1227 of this article are met;
(4) the destruction of any record until the expiration of the period that a statute expressly sets for that record to be kept;
(5) the destruction of any public record that a statute expressly requires to be kept permanently; or
(6) the destruction of any record of a court of record unless:
(i) the destruction is authorized under § 1–605(d)(6) or § 2–205 of the Courts Article;
(ii) an accurate transcript of the record is in use; or
(iii) the record relates to the internal management of or otherwise is a housekeeping record for an office of a clerk of court or register of wills.
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