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Terms Used In Maryland Code, STATE GOVERNMENT 10-615

  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • state: means :

    (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or

    (2) the District of Columbia. See
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
Except as expressly provided in § 10-619 of this subtitle, this Part III of this subtitle does not authorize:

(1) the destruction of a permanent book of account;

(2) the destruction of a land record of a clerk of a circuit court;

(3) the destruction of any record that relates to the financial operation of a unit of the State government or to collection of State taxes until the requirements of §§ 2-1220 through 2-1227 of this article are met;

(4) the destruction of any record until the expiration of the period that a statute expressly sets for that record to be kept;

(5) the destruction of any public record that a statute expressly requires to be kept permanently; or

(6) the destruction of any record of a court of record unless:

(i) the destruction is authorized under § 1-605(d)(6) or § 2-205 of the Courts Article;

(ii) an accurate transcript of the record is in use; or

(iii) the record relates to the internal management of or otherwise is a housekeeping record for an office of a clerk of court or register of wills.