As used in this act:
(a)"State agency" means any department, board, commission, or authority of the executive branch of state government.
(b)"Local agency" means any department, board, commission, officer or authority of a county, city, township, school district or other tax-supported governmental subdivision of the state.
(c)"Board" means the state records board established pursuant to K.S.A. 75-3502 and amendments thereto. (d)"Government records" means all volumes, documents, reports, maps, drawings, charts, indexes, plans, memoranda, sound recordings, microfilms, photographic records and other data, information or documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, storage media or condition of use, made or received by an agency in pursuance of law or in connection
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As used in this act:
(a) "State agency" means any department, board, commission, or authority of the executive branch of state government.
(b) "Local agency" means any department, board, commission, officer or authority of a county, city, township, school district or other tax-supported governmental subdivision of the state.
(c) "Board" means the state records board established pursuant to K.S.A. 75-3502 and amendments thereto.
(d) "Government records" means all volumes, documents, reports, maps, drawings, charts, indexes, plans, memoranda, sound recordings, microfilms, photographic records and other data, information or documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, storage media or condition of use, made or received by an agency in pursuance of law or in connection with the transaction of official business or bearing upon the official activities and functions of any governmental agency. Published material acquired and preserved solely for reference purposes, extra copies of documents preserved only for convenience of reference and stocks of publications, blank forms and duplicated documents are not included within the definition of government records.
(e) "Noncurrent government records" means all government records which no longer are necessary for the handling of ordinary official public business by the agency and which are not required by law to be retained in the immediate custody of the agency for a longer period of time.
(f) "Government records with enduring value" means all government records which merit preservation for historical, legal, fiscal or administrative reasons, or for research purposes.
(g) "Retention and disposition schedules" means lists of series of government records, prepared pursuant to K.S.A. 45-404 and subsections (c) and (d) of K.S.A. 45-406, and amendments thereto, specifying which series of records have enduring value, authorizing disposition of certain other series of records, and indicating how long certain series of records should be retained before disposition of them.