Section 109.255

Title VIII PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, BONDS AND RECORDS

Chapter 109

Effective - 28 Aug 1986, 2 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  109.255.  Secretary of state duties as to local boards of record control — local boards, terms, expenses. — 1.  The secretary of state is hereby authorized to appoint and serve as chairman of a local records board to advise, counsel, and judge what local records shall be retained, copied, preserved, or disposed of and in what manner these functions shall be carried out by the director.  This board shall represent a wide area of public interest in local records and shall consist of at least twelve members one of whom shall represent school boards, one constitutional charter city, one third class city, one fourth class city, one village, one township, one for each class of county of the first and second class, one third or fourth class county, one higher education, one historical society and such other members as the secretary of state shall direct.

  2.  The members of the board of record control shall serve staggered terms and may be removed at the pleasure of the secretary of state.

  3.  The members of the board of control shall receive no salary but may be compensated for travel expenses if the budget of the secretary of state permits.

  4.  The board shall meet at such times as the chairman may call them.

  5.  The director with advice of the board of record control shall issue directives to guide local officials on the destruction of local records and nonrecord materials.

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(L. 1972 S.B. 376, A.L. 1986 S.B. 732)