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<br />132-2 CH. 132. PUHLIC RECORDS § 132-4
<br />tions and copies thereof shall become public records as defined in
<br />G.S. 132-1 three years from the date such communication was re-
<br />ceived by such public board, council, commission or other govern-
<br />mental body. (1975, c. 662J
<br />Legal Periodicals. -For survey of
<br />1981 administrative law, see 60 N.C.L.
<br />Rev. 1165 (1982).
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<br />Cited in News & Observer Publishing
<br />Co. v. Wake County Hap. Sys., 55 N.C. ..
<br />App. 1, 284 S.E.2d 542 (1981).
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<br />§ .232-2. Custodian designated.
<br />The public official in charge of an office having public records
<br />shall be the custodian thereof. (1935, c. 265, s. 2.)
<br />§ 132-3. Destruction of records regulated.
<br />No public official may destroy, sell, loan, or otherwise dispose of
<br />any public record, except in accordance with G.S. 121-5, without the
<br />consent of the Department of Cultural Resources. Whoever unlaw-
<br />fully removes a public record from the office where it is usually
<br />kept, or alters, defaces, mutilates yr destroys it shall be guilty of a
<br />misdemeanor and upon conviction fined not less than ten dollars
<br />($10.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00). (1935, c. 265,
<br />s. 3; .1943, c. 237;1953, c. 675, s. 17; 1957, c. 330, .2;1973, c. 476, s.
<br />48.)
<br />Cross References. -For section fur-
<br />ther regulating destruction of records,
<br />see 3 121-5.
<br />CASE NOTES
<br />Applied in State v. West, 31 N.C. Cited in State v.l3ellar, 16 N.C. App.
<br />App. 431, 229 S.E.2d 826 (1976); State v. 339, 192 S.E.2d 86 (1972).
<br />Caldwell, 53 N.C. App. 1, 279 S.E.2d 852
<br />11981).
<br />§ 132-4. Disposition of records at end of off'icial's
<br />term.
<br />Whoever has the custody of any public records shall, at the expi-
<br />ration of his term of office, deliver to his successor, or, if there be
<br />none, to the Department of Cultural Resources, all records, books,
<br />writings,, letters and documents kept or received by him in the
<br />transaction of his official business; and any such person who shall
<br />refuse or neglect for the space of 10 days after request made in
<br />writing by any citizen of the State to deliver as herein required
<br />such public records to the person authorized to receive them shall
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