§ 61-28B-25 — Working papers; client records. (Repealed effective July

1, 2030.) A. A statement, record, schedule, working paper or memorandum made by a certificate or permit holder incident to rendering a service to a client shall be the property of the certificate or permit holder in the absence of an express agreement between him and the client to the contrary, except the report submitted by him to the client and except for a record that is part of the client's records. No such item shall be sold, transferred or bequeathed without the consent of the client or the client's personal representative, except to a partner, stockholder or member of the firm or any combined or merged firm or successor in interest to the certificate or permit holder. Nothing in this section shall prohibit any temporary transfer of a work paper or other material necessary in the course of carrying out a peer review or as otherwise interfering with the disclosure of information pursuant to the 1999 Public Accountancy Act. B. A certificate or permit holder shall furnish to a client or former client, upon request and reasonable notice: (1) a copy of his working paper, to the extent that such working paper includes a record that would ordinarily constitute part of the client's record and is not otherwise available to the client; and (2) an accounting or other record belonging to, or obtained from or on behalf of, the client that he removed from the client's premises or received for the client's account; he may make and retain a copy of a document of the client when they form the basis for work done by him.

Legislative History

Laws 1999, ch. 179, § 25.