Effective - 28 Aug 1972
109.270. Records are property of state or local government — not to be damaged or disposed of. — All records made or received by or under the authority of or coming into the custody, control or possession of state or local officials in the course of their public duties are the property of the state or local government and shall not be mutilated, destroyed, transferred, removed or otherwise damaged or disposed of, in whole or in part, except as provided by law.
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(L. 1965 p. 233 § 8, A.L. 1972 S.B. 376)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records
Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records
Section 109.010 - Officer to deliver records to successor.
Section 109.020 - Duty of executor.
Section 109.030 - Penalties for failure to deliver records.
Section 109.040 - Vacated office — seizure of records by warrant.
Section 109.050 - Authority of officer executing writ.
Section 109.060 - Penalty for not executing the writ.
Section 109.070 - Remedy of person aggrieved by issuance of such warrant.
Section 109.080 - Private persons to deliver records — proceedings on failure.
Section 109.090 - Courts may order records rebound, transcribed, indexed.
Section 109.100 - Photographic copies of records.
Section 109.110 - Transcript to be evidence, when.
Section 109.120 - Records reproduced by photographic, video or electronic process, standards — cost.
Section 109.130 - Reproduced records deemed original, when.
Section 109.140 - Disposition of court records, how authorized — methods of disposition.
Section 109.156 - Original may be destroyed after reproduction, exceptions.
Section 109.160 - Statement and affidavit when record lost or destroyed.
Section 109.170 - Clerk to issue summons — proceedings.
Section 109.180 - Public records open to inspection — refusal to permit inspection, penalty.
Section 109.190 - Right of person to photograph public records — regulations.
Section 109.200 - Short title.
Section 109.210 - Definitions.
Section 109.230 - Duties of director.
Section 109.240 - Duties of agency heads.
Section 109.241 - Local agency head, duties of.
Section 109.250 - State records commission established — members — duties — meetings.
Section 109.260 - Destruction of records and nonrecord materials.
Section 109.265 - Disposition of nonrecord material, director to retain certain copies, when.
Section 109.290 - Director to assist legislative and judicial branches upon request.
Section 109.295 - Certain activities not affected.
Section 109.300 - Termination of agency — disposition of records.
Section 109.410 - Missouri State Archives — St. Louis Trust Fund established, use of funds.
Section 109.500 - Records defined.
Section 109.510 - Data processing may be used for all records.