Maryland Code, STATE GOVERNMENT 10-616
Terms Used In Maryland Code, STATE GOVERNMENT 10-616
- 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 - 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.
(1) an original paper;
(2) a book;
(3) a file;
(4) a record of a court of record for which an accurate transcript is in use;
(5) a record that relates to the internal management of or otherwise is a housekeeping record for an office of a clerk of court or register of wills; or
(6) any other written or recorded materials regardless of their physical form or characteristics.
(b) Records accepted for transfer to the Archives shall be accompanied by a records inventory.
(c) (1) With the written approval of the State Archivist, a public official may destroy the record that the public official offers under this section, but the Archives declines to accept.
(2) After records are destroyed, the public official shall send to the Archives:
(i) a list of the records that were destroyed; and
(ii) a certificate of destruction.
(3) (i) The State Archivist shall keep each list of the records destroyed under this subsection.
(ii) The list shall be available for public inspection at reasonable times.