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O.C.G.A. § 50-18-93 — Duties of division | Georgia Code
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TITLE 50 STATE GOVERNMENT

Section 18. State Printing and Documents, 50-18-1 through 50-18-135.

ARTICLE 5 STATE RECORDS MANAGEMENT

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 be employed under the rules and regulations of the State Personnel Board, a records management program;
  2. Develop and issue procedures, rules, and regulations establishing standards for efficient and economical management methods relating to the creation, maintenance, utilization, retention, preservation, and disposition of records, filing equipment, supplies, microfilming of records, and vital records programs;
  3. Assist state agencies in implementing records programs by providing consultative services in records management, conducting surveys in order to recommend more efficient records management practices, and providing training for records management personnel; and
  4. Operate a records center or centers which shall accept all records transferred to it through the operation of approved retention schedules, provide secure storage and reference service for the same, and submit written notice to the applicable agency of intended destruction of records in accordance with approved retention schedules.

(Ga. L. 1972, p. 1267, § 4; Ga. L. 1975, p. 675, § 3; Ga. L. 2002, p. 532, § 25; Ga. L. 2009, p. 745, § 1/SB 97; Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 2-108/HB 642.)

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, substituted "State Personnel Board" for "State Personnel Administration" in paragraph (1).

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 3-1/HB 642, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "Personnel, equipment, and facilities that were assigned to the State Personnel Administration as of June 30, 2012, shall be transferred to the Department of Administrative Services on the effective date of this Act." This Act became effective July 1, 2012.

Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 3-2/HB 642, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "Appropriations for functions which are transferred by this Act may be transferred as provided in Code Section 45-12-90."

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Authority of agency head.

- Agency head has direct supervisory control over the agency records management officer and, subject to the approval of the State Records Committee, direct control over the agency's records management program. 1975 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 75-84.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 66 Am. Jur. 2d, Records and Recording Laws, § 1.

C.J.S.

- 76 C.J.S., Records, §§ 3, 8, 11, 41.

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