Texas § LG.203.002 - DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF ELECTED COUNTY OFFICERS AS RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFI

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§ LG.203.002. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF ELECTED COUNTY OFFICERS AS RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFI

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF ELECTED COUNTY OFFICERS AS RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFICERS. The elected county officer shall: (1) develop policies and procedures for the administration of an active and continuing records management program; (2) administer the records management program so as to reduce the costs and improve the efficiency of recordkeeping; (3) identify and take adequate steps to preserve records that are of permanent value; (4) identify and take adequate steps to protect the essential records of the office; (5) ensure that the maintenance, preservation, microfilming, destruction, or other disposition of records is carried out in accordance with the policies and procedures of the records management program and the requirements of this subtitle and rules adopted under it; and (6) cooperate with the commission in its conduct of statewide records management surveys. Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1248, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by: Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 533 (H.B. 1962 ), Sec. 14, eff. September 1, 2019.

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