Tex. Gov't Code § 441.095 · Subchapter F. MAINTENANCE AND DISPOSITION OF CERTAIN COUNTY RECORDS
DISPOSITION OF UNSCHEDULED RECORDS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 533 (H.B. 1962), Sec. 20(a)(3), eff. September 1, 2019.
(b) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 533 (H.B. 1962), Sec. 20(a)(3), eff. September 1, 2019.
(c) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 533 (H.B. 1962), Sec. 20(a)(3), eff. September 1, 2019.
(d) A custodian may dispose of a county record that is not listed on a records retention schedule issued by the commission if, not later than the 10th day before the date the record is destroyed, the custodian files and records a notice with the county clerk. The notice must indicate the record to be destroyed, how it is to be destroyed, and the date of its destruction. On the day the notice is filed, the county clerk shall post a copy of it in the same manner that a notice of a meeting is posted under Chapter 551.
(e) The custodian may destroy the record at any time after the notice required by Subsection (d) has been posted for 10 days by the county clerk.
(f) A county record may be destroyed only by sale or donation for recycling purposes, shredding, burning, burial in a landfill, or pulping.
(g) A person is not civilly liable for destruction of a record in accordance with this subchapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 123, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1989; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 5.95(79), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 533 (H.B. 1962), Sec. 7, eff. September 1, 2019.
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 533 (H.B. 1962), Sec. 20(a)(3), eff. September 1, 2019.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.441.htm
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