O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 10-11-2 (2019)

Time period for retention of business records

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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Unless a specific period is designated by law for their preservation, business records which persons pursuant to the laws of this state are required to keep or preserve may be destroyed after the expiration of three years from the making of such records without constituting an offense under such laws. This Code section does not apply to minute books of corporations or to records of sales or other transactions involving weapons or poisons capable of use in the commission of crimes.

History

Code 1981, § 10-11-2, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 1638, § 1.