Idaho § 38-712 - Information, correspondence and data - Duty to guard

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§ 38-712. Information, correspondence and data - Duty to guard

It shall be the duty of all officers and employees of the forest, wildlife and range experiment station, appointed or assigned, to guard carefully all confidential information accumulated in the progress of their work and such information shall be subject to disclosure according to chapter 1, title 74 , Idaho Code; and to consider as property of the forest, wildlife and range experiment station all correspondence, notes, illustrations and data of any kind accumulated by them in the execution of the work of the experiment station delegated to them.

[38-712, added 1939, ch. 259, sec. 12, p. 643; am. 1990, ch. 213, sec. 33, p. 508; am. 2015, ch. 141, sec. 81, p. 439.]

Source: official Idaho text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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Section 38-712 ("Information, correspondence and data - Duty to guard") is part of the Idaho Statutes, the codified statutory law of Idaho. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.

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