§ 10-640. Nonofficial materials

   (a) In general. -- A public official may offer to the Archives or may destroy any of the following materials that the public official no longer needs:

   (1) a book, magazine, or newspaper;

   (2) other library or museum material that was made or acquired for reference or exhibition purposes;

   (3) an extra copy of a document that was kept only for convenience of reference;

   (4) a stock of publications;

   (5) an acceptance or refusal of an invitation or engagement of a public officer; and

   (6) material that otherwise relates to personal business of a public officer.

(b) Other materials. -- The State Archivist may set classes of materials that the public official may destroy if the public official no longer needs the materials.

HISTORY: 1984, ch. 286, § 5, 8.