Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 203.026 · Subchapter B. ALL OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES
RECORDS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TO BE ESTABLISHED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) On or before January 1, 1991, each governing body by ordinance or order, as appropriate, shall establish a records management program to be administered by the records management officer.
(b) The ordinance or order must provide methods and procedures to enable the governing body, custodians, and the records management officer to fulfill the duties and responsibilities set out in Sections 203.021, 203.022, and 203.023 concerning the management and preservation of records. The ordinance or order may prescribe any policies or procedures for the operation of the records management program that are consistent with the requirements of this subtitle and rules adopted under it.
(c) A copy of the ordinance or order must be filed by the records management officer with the director and librarian within 30 days after the date of its adoption.
(d) An ordinance or order establishing or relating to a records management program adopted before September 1, 1989, must be amended if any provision of the ordinance or order is in conflict with this subtitle or a rule adopted under it. A copy of the amended ordinance or order shall be filed with the director and librarian as provided by Subsection (c).
(e) A copy of an amended ordinance or revised order relating to the establishment or operation of the records management program must be filed by the governing body with the director and librarian within 30 days after the date of its adoption.
(f) The director and librarian or the designee of the director and librarian shall within a reasonable time bring to the attention of the governing body in writing any aspect of an ordinance or order filed in the office of the director and librarian or that otherwise comes to the attention of the director and librarian that is inconsistent with the requirements of this subtitle or rules adopted under it.
(g) The governing body in a records management program established under this section may require the mandatory destruction of any record of the local government when its retention period has expired on a records control schedule developed under Section 203.041.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1248, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
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Local Government Code
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 203.021DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF GOVERNING BODY.Printed as Sections 203.021, 203.022, and 203.023
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 203.022DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF CUSTODIANS.Printed as Sections 203.021, 203.022, and 203.023
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 203.023DUTIES OF RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFICER.Printed as Sections 203.021, 203.022, and 203.023
- Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 203.041PREPARATION OF RECORDS CONTROL SCHEDULES.Printed as Section 203.041
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