§ 102385 Record Preservation Requirements

• •Only agencies that can protect records may keep them.
• •If they can't protect them, they must return the records.
• •The records go back to the local registrar or county recorder who originally had them.

A county health department receives copies of old land deeds from a nonprofit historic society, but later discovers its computer system is too old to protect the files.

Because the health department can't guarantee the records will stay safe and available, the law says it must send those copies back to the county recorder who first kept the deeds.