§ 10-638. Scope of part

   Except as expressly provided in § 10-642 of this subtitle, this Part V 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.

HISTORY: 1984, ch. 286, § 5, 9; 1996, ch. 10, § 1; 1997, ch. 635, § 9; ch. 636, § 9.