1. (a) The following purposes of this undesignated head are to:

   1. (1) implement the Government Code, §441.158; and
   2. (2) provide procedures for the development of records retention schedules which ensure participation by the public, local officials, and state agencies having regulatory authority over local government recordkeeping.
2. (b) The records retention schedules adopted in §7.125 of this title (relating to Adoption of Records Retention Schedules by Reference) shall be considered minimum requirements and shall in no way affect the authority of the governing bodies of local governments or of elected county officials to establish longer periods of time for which records of their government or office are to be retained.

3. (c) Local governments and elected county officers may destroy the following records without first filing records destruction requests with the director and librarian:

   1. (1) any record whose retention period in a records retention schedule is AV (as long as administratively valuable);
   2. (2) any record whose retention period in a records retention schedule is one year or less;
   3. (3) any record whose retention period in a records retention schedule is US (until superseded), unless an additional period exceeding one year is prescribed beyond supersession;
   4. (4) any record listed in Local Schedule EL, as adopted under §7.125 of this title (relating to Adoption of Records Retention Schedules by Reference), whose retention period is RP-1 (general, special, and primary elections that do not involve a federal office--60 days after election day) or RP-2 (general, special, and primary elections that do involve a federal office--22 months after election day);
   5. (5) any record listed as exempt from the destruction request requirement in a records retention schedule.

Source Note:The provisions of this §7.123 adopted to be effective February 1, 1992, 16 TexReg 7733; amended to be effective October 19, 1994, 19 TexReg 8030.