The regulation establishes requirements that public records, regardless of media, that contain social security numbers must be shredded, pulped, incinerated, made electronically inaccessible or erased so as to make the social security numbers unreadable or undecipherable by any means. These regulations apply only to those records whose retention periods have expired.

Statutory Authority

§§ 42.1-8 and 42.1-82 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 25, Issue 6, eff. December 24, 2008.