Georgia Code, Title 50, Chapter 18, Article 5 - State Records Management

• § 50-18-90 - Short Title
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia Records Act."
• § 50-18-91 - Definitions
  As used in this article, the term: (1) "Agency" means any state office, department, division, board, bureau, commission, authority, or other separate unit of...
• § 50-18-92 - Creation of State Records Committee; Membership; Duties; Retention Schedules; Appeal to Committee by Agency Heads; Court Records
  (a) There is created the State Records Committee, to be composed of the Governor, the Secretary of State, the chancellor of the University System...
• § 50-18-93 - Duties of Division
  It shall be the duty of the division to: (1) Establish and administer, under the direction of a state records management officer, who shall...
• § 50-18-94 - Duties of Agencies
  It shall be the duty of each agency to: (1) Cause to be made and preserved records containing adequate and proper documentation of the...
• § 50-18-95 - Agency Heads Retain Authority to Determine Records Required by Departments; Treatment of Confidential Records
  (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed to divest agency heads of the authority to determine the nature and form of records required...
• § 50-18-96 - Copies of Records As Primary Evidence
  Repealed by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 95/HB 24, effective January 1, 2013.
• § 50-18-97 - Effect of Certified Copies of Records; Fee
  The division may make certified copies under seal of any records or any preservation duplicates transferred or deposited in the Georgia State Archives or...
• § 50-18-98 - Title to Records; Access to Records of Constitutional Officers
  (a) Title to any record transferred to the Georgia State Archives as authorized by this article shall be vested in the division. The division...
• § 50-18-99 - Records Management Programs for Local Governments
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Governing body" means the governing body of any county, municipality, or consolidated government. The...
• § 50-18-100 - Lifting Restrictions on Access to Confidential, Classified, or Restricted Records After 75 Years; Earlier Lifting
  (a) This Code section applies only to those records: (1) That are confidential, classified, or restricted by Acts of the General Assembly or may...
• § 50-18-101 - Use of Confidential, Classified, or Restricted Records for Research; Limitations
  (a) Records that by law are confidential, classified, or restricted may be used for research purposes by private researchers providing that: (1) The researcher...
• § 50-18-102 - Records As Public Property; Disposing of Records Other Than by Approved Retention Schedule As Misdemeanor; Person Acting Under Article Not Liable
  (a) All records created or received in the performance of duty and paid for by public funds are deemed to be public property and...
• § 50-18-103 - Construction of Laws and Rules
  Whenever laws or rules and regulations prescribe where a record series must be kept, the custodian of the records shall be considered in compliance...

Last modified: October 14, 2016