Tex. Local Government Code § 203.044

This is the official text of Tex. Local Government Code § 203.044, part of Texas’s Local Government Code — governs the powers and operations of Texas cities and counties.

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§ 203.044. INITIAL DESTRUCTION OF OBSOLETE RECORDS.

Official statutory text

(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(c) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 533 (H.B. 1962), Sec. 20(b)(4), eff. September 1, 2019.

(d) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 533 (H.B. 1962), Sec. 20(b)(4), eff. September 1, 2019.

Status: repealed · Read it on the official government site

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