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O.C.G.A. § 15-6-73 — Destruction of obsolete records | Georgia Code
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TITLE 15 COURTS

Section 6. Superior Courts, 15-6-1 through 15-6-100.

ARTICLE 2 CLERKS OF SUPERIOR COURTS

15-6-73. Destruction of obsolete records.

  1. Clerks of superior court shall be authorized, from time to time, to destroy books containing records of instruments conveying personal property only, including bills of sale, mortgages, conditional sales contracts, retention title contracts, and bills of sale to secure debt, whenever the records are older than five years of age.
  2. Every clerk of superior court shall be, from time to time, authorized to destroy original civil pleadings which have been recorded in the minutes or writ books of the court in every civil case which has been finally terminated for 20 years or more, except cases involving divorce, titles to land, legitimation of a child or children, and proceedings for adoption.

(Ga. L. 1962, p. 662, § 1; Ga. L. 2012, p. 173, § 1-15/HB 665.)

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Georgia law does not provide for destruction of any records or papers except those expressly mentioned in Ga. L. 1962, p. 662, § 1 (see now O.C.G.A. § 15-6-73). 1967 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 67-202.

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