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Texas Local Government Code - Section 203.026. Records Management Program To Be Established

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§ 203.026. RECORDS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TO BE 
ESTABLISHED.  (a) On or before January 1, 1991, each governing body 
by ordinance or order, as appropriate, shall establish a records 
management program to be administered by the records management 
officer.
	(b)  The ordinance or order must provide methods and 
procedures to enable the governing body, custodians, and the 
records management officer to fulfill the duties and 
responsibilities set out in Sections 203.021, 203.022, and 203.023 
concerning the management and preservation of records.  The 
ordinance or order may prescribe any policies or procedures for the 
operation of the records management program that are consistent 
with the requirements of this subtitle and rules adopted under it.
	(c)  A copy of the ordinance or order must be filed by the 
records management officer with the director and librarian within 
30 days after the date of its adoption.
	(d)  An ordinance or order establishing or relating to a 
records management program adopted before September 1, 1989, must 
be amended if any provision of the ordinance or order is in conflict 
with this subtitle or a rule adopted under it.  A copy of the amended 
ordinance or order shall be filed with the director and librarian as 
provided by Subsection (c).
	(e)  A copy of an amended ordinance or revised order relating 
to the establishment or operation of the records management program 
must be filed by the governing body with the director and librarian 
within 30 days after the date of its adoption.
	(f)  The director and librarian or the designee of the 
director and librarian shall within a reasonable time bring to the 
attention of the governing body in writing any aspect of an 
ordinance or order filed in the office of the director and librarian 
or that otherwise comes to the attention of the director and 
librarian that is inconsistent with the requirements of this 
subtitle or rules adopted under it.
	(g)  The governing body in a records management program 
established under this section may require the mandatory 
destruction of any record of the local government when its 
retention period has expired on a records control schedule 
developed under Section 203.041.

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

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