Texas Local Government Code Title 6, Chapter 203 - Management And Preservation Of Records

SUBCHAPTER A ELECTIVE COUNTY OFFICES

• Texas Section 203.001 - Records Management Officer
  Each elected county officer is the records management officer for the records of the officer's office. Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1248, Sec....
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 203.003 - Duties Of Commissioners Court
  The commissioners court of each county shall: (1) promote and support the efficient and economical management of records of all elective offices in the county...
• Texas Section 203.004 - Director And Librarian
  The director and librarian shall provide advice and assistance to records management officers in establishing records management programs and in carrying out the other requirements...

SUBCHAPTER B ALL OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES

• Texas Section 203.005 - Records Management Program To Be Established
  (a) On or before January 1, 1991, each elected county officer shall adopt a written plan establishing an active and continuing program for the efficient...
• Texas Section 203.021 - Duties And Responsibilities Of Governing Body
  The governing body of a local government, including a commissioners court with regard to nonelective county offices, shall: (1) establish, promote, and support an active...
• Texas Section 203.022 - Duties And Responsibilities Of Custodians
  (a) Custodians of records in each local government shall: (1) cooperate with the records management officer in carrying out the policies and procedures established by...
• Texas Section 203.023 - Duties Of Records Management Officer
  The records management officer in each local government shall: (1) assist in establishing and developing policies and procedures for a records management program for the...
• Texas Section 203.024 - Director And Librarian
  The director and librarian shall provide advice and assistance to governing bodies, custodians, and records management officers in establishing records management programs and in carrying...
• Texas Section 203.025 - Designation Of Records Management Officer
  (a) On or before June 1, 1990, the governing body of each local government shall designate a records management officer by: (1) designating an individual;...

SUBCHAPTER C RECORDS CONTROL SCHEDULES

• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 203.041 - Preparation And Filing Of Records Control Schedules
  (a) On or before January 4, 1999, the records management officer shall prepare and file with the director and librarian: (1) a records control schedule...
• Texas Section 203.042 - Retention Periods
  (a) A retention period for each record on the records control schedule shall be determined by the governing body or under its direction or by...
• Texas Section 203.043 - Filing Of Records Control Schedules
  (a) If the director and librarian or the designee of the director and librarian accepts the records control schedule, amended schedule, written certification of compliance...
• Texas Section 203.044 - Initial Destruction Of Obsolete Records
  (a) In preparing a records control schedule required by Section 203.041, the records management officer may list separately those obsolete records no longer created or...
• Texas Section 203.045 - Destruction Of Unscheduled Records
  (a) Before the filing of a records control schedule or a written certification of compliance as provided by Section 203.041, a local government record may...
• Texas Section 203.046 - Recordkeeping Requirements
  As the governing body may require, the records management officer shall keep accurate lists of records destroyed, their volume, and other information of records management...
• Texas Section 203.047 - New Local Governments
  A local government established after September 1, 1989, shall fulfill the requirements of Sections 203.025, 203.026, and 203.041 within one year after the date of...
• Texas Section 203.048 - Care Of Records Of Permanent Value
  The commission shall adopt rules establishing standards for the proper care and storage of local government records of permanent value. The commission may require that...
• Texas Section 203.049 - Transfer Of Records Of Permanent Value
  (a) The governing body or elected county officer may offer to transfer records of permanent value not needed in the day-to-day business of the local...
• Texas Section 203.050 - Inspection Of Permanent Records
  (a) The director and librarian or the authorized representative of the director and librarian is entitled to inspect in the offices of any local government...

Last modified: September 28, 2016