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Texas Local Government Code - Section 203.002. Duties And Responsibilities Of Elected County Officers As Records Management Officers

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§ 203.002. 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)  prepare and file with the director and librarian 
the records control schedules and amended schedules required by 
Section 203.041 and the list of obsolete records as provided by 
Section 203.044;
		(4)  prepare requests for authorization to destroy 
records not on an approved control schedule as provided by Section 
203.045, requests to destroy the originals of permanent records 
that have been microfilmed as provided by Section 204.008, and 
electronic storage authorization requests as provided by Section 
205.007;
		(5)  identify and take adequate steps to preserve 
records that are of permanent value;
		(6)  identify and take adequate steps to protect the 
essential records of the office;
		(7)  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
		(8)  cooperate with the commission in its conduct of 
statewide records management surveys.

Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1248, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.          

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