New Jersey § 52:18a-30

§ 52:18a-30.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Treasurer shall have continuing

authority to destroy, or dispose of for the purpose of destruction, any and all records

under his jurisdiction or custody as head of the Department of the Treasury and classified

as (a) auxiliary books of entry, (b) duplicates of books of original entry, and (c)

records of a supplemental nature containing data recorded in another book or other

books of original entry; provided, that no such record or records shall be destroyed

or disposed of for the purpose of destruction unless the entries contained therein

were made at least twenty years prior to the date of such destruction or disposal

for destruction; and provided further, that the authority herein vested in the State

Treasurer shall extend to records at any time separately kept by the State Comptroller

before the office of State Comptroller was transferred to and constituted an office

in the Department of the Treasury.