§ 84-1213 — Records; property of state or local agencies; protected; willfully mutilate, destroy, transfer, remove, damage, or otherwise dispose of; violation; penalty

Nebraska § 84-1213

• Jurisdiction: Nebraska
• Ch. 84: State Officers

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(1) All records made or received
by or under the authority of or
coming into the custody, control, or possession of state or local agencies in the course of their public
duties are the
property of the state or local agency concerned and shall not be mutilated,
destroyed, transferred, removed, damaged, or otherwise disposed of, in whole
or in part, except as provided by law.
(2) Any person
who willfully mutilates, destroys, transfers, removes,
damages, or otherwise disposes of such records or
any part of such records, except as provided by law, and any person who retains and continues to hold
the possession of any such records, or parts thereof, belonging to the state or local agency and refuses to deliver up such records, or parts
thereof, to the proper official under whose authority such records belong upon demand being made by
such officer or, in cases of a defunct office, to the succeeding agency or
to the State Archives of the Nebraska State Historical Society, shall be guilty
of a Class III misdemeanor.

Legislative History

Source: Laws 1961, c. 455, § 13, p. 1392; Laws 1973, LB 224, § 15; Laws 1979, LB 559, § 7; Laws 1980, LB 747, § 3; Laws 2012, LB719, § 19.