Code of Alabama
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 36-12-2 - Public Officers and Servants to Accurately Maintain and Preserve From Loss, Destruction, etc., Complete Books, Papers, Files, Etc.

All public officers and servants shall correctly make and accurately keep in and for their respective offices or places of business all such books or sets of books, documents, files, papers, letters and copies of letters as at all times shall afford full and detailed information in reference to the activities or business required to be done or carried on by such officer or servant and from which the actual status and condition of such activities and business can be ascertained without extraneous information, and all of the books, documents, files, papers, letters, and copies of letters so made and kept shall be carefully protected and safely preserved and guarded from mutilation, loss or destruction.

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Code of Alabama

Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.

Chapter 12 - Maintenance, Use, etc., of Public Property, Records, Etc.

Article 1 - General Provisions.

Section 36-12-1 - Public Officer or Servant Defined.

Section 36-12-2 - Public Officers and Servants to Accurately Maintain and Preserve From Loss, Destruction, etc., Complete Books, Papers, Files, Etc.

Section 36-12-3 - Permanence and Uniformity in Size, Style, etc., of Books, Papers, Files, etc., Required; Factors in Selection of Record Books, Writing Paper, Inks, Typewriter Ribbons, Etc.

Section 36-12-4 - Public Officers and Servants to Deliver Current Papers, Books, etc., to Successors in Office.

Section 36-12-5 - Disposition of Books, Papers, etc., When No Longer Current.