Sec. 15. (a) A public official who has the custody of any records, excluding personal records, shall at the expiration of the public official's term of office or appointment, deliver to the public official's successor, or to the administration if there is no successor, all materials defined as records by this chapter.
(b) Upon the termination of a state agency or local government whose functions have not been transferred to another agency or local government the records of the state agency or local government shall be deposited with the administration. The administration shall determine which records are of sufficient legal, historical, administrative, research or fiscal value to warrant their continued preservation. Records that are determined to be of insufficient value to warrant continued preservation shall be disposed of or destroyed.
As added by Acts 1979, P.L.40, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.171-2015, SEC.25.
Structure Indiana Code
Title 5. State and Local Administration
Article 15. Preservation of Public Records
Chapter 5.1. Indiana Archives and Records Administration
5-15-5.1-2. Application of Chapter
5-15-5.1-4. Director; Qualifications; Staff; Salaries
5-15-5.1-5. Duties and Powers of the Archives and Records Administration
5-15-5.1-5.3. State Archives Preservation and Reproduction Account; Establishment
5-15-5.1-6.5. Racial or Ethnic Identification Information; Multiracial Classification
5-15-5.1-8. State Imaging and Microfilm Laboratory; Standards for Microfilming and Imaging Documents
5-15-5.1-9. Copies of Records Transferred to Archives and Records Administration; Force and Effect
5-15-5.1-10. Duties of Agencies and Local Governments
5-15-5.1-12. Critical Records Program
5-15-5.1-13. Confidential Records; Destruction
5-15-5.1-14. Mutilation, Sale, Loan, or Other Disposition of Records by Public Official or Agency
5-15-5.1-16. Transfer of Records to State Archives; Agreements With Legislature and Supreme Court
5-15-5.1-18. Oversight Committee; Composition; Secretary; Compensation and Expenses