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Title 4.DIVISION 1. CITIES GENERALLY
Ch. 1.CHAPTER 1. General
Art. 4.ARTICLE 4. Miscellaneous
This text of California § 34090. (34090. (Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 467, Sec. 15.)) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering California primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Unless otherwise provided by law, with the approval of the legislative body by resolution and the written consent of the city attorney, the head of a city department may destroy any city record, document, instrument, book, or paper, under the department head’s charge, without making a copy thereof, after the same is no longer required.
This section does not authorize the destruction of:
(a)Records affecting the title to real property or liens thereon.
(c)Records required to be kept by
statute.
(d)Records less than two years old.
(e)The minutes, ordinances, or resolutions of the legislative body or of a city board or commission.
This section shall not be construed as limiting or qualifying in any manner the authority provided in Section 34090.5 for the destructi
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Unless otherwise provided by law, with the approval of the legislative body by resolution and the written consent of the city attorney, the head of a city department may destroy any city record, document, instrument, book, or paper, under the department head’s charge, without making a copy thereof, after the same is no longer required.
This section does not authorize the destruction of:
(a)
Records affecting the title to real property or liens thereon.
(b)
Court records.
(c)
Records required to be kept by
statute.
(d)
Records less than two years old.
(e)
The minutes, ordinances, or resolutions of the legislative body or of a city board or commission.
This section shall not be construed as limiting or qualifying in any manner the authority provided in Section 34090.5 for the destruction of records, documents, instruments, books, and papers in accordance with the procedure therein prescribed.