If the requested record has been destroyed or lost, the custodian to whom the request is made shall notify the requester of this fact within 30 days of receipt of the request. The custodian shall explain in the response the reasons why the record cannot be produced.

Authority: Economic Development Article, §§2-108; State Government Article, §§10-613 and 10-617(c); Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: July 9, 1990 (17:13 Md. R. 1614)

Regulation .07-1 adopted effective June 8, 1992 (19:11 Md. R. 1017)

Regulation .07-1 amended as an emergency provision effective May 19, 1995 (22:12 Md. R. 898); amended permanently effective July 31, 1995 (22:15 Md. R. 1122)