§ 9-2-411 — Records committee created; composition; expenses; meetings; action by majority vote; duties as to retention and disposition of public records

Wyoming § 9-2-411

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 09: Administration of the Government
• Ch. 2: AGENCIES, BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND DEPARTMENTS
• Art. 4: STATE ARCHIVES, MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT

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The records committee is created to be composed of the director
or his deputy, who shall act as chairman and secretary of the
committee, the attorney general or his appointee and the
director of the state department of audit or his appointee.
Committee members shall serve without additional salary, but
shall be entitled to traveling expenses incurred incident to
committee business. Expenses shall be paid from the
appropriations made for operation of their respective
departments or offices. The records committee shall meet upon
call by the chairman at least once every quarter. Action by the
committee shall be by majority vote and records shall be kept of
all committee business. When the disposition of records is
considered by the records committee, it shall ascertain the
recommendations of the head of the department or the
departmental records officer. The records committee shall
approve, modify or disapprove the recommendations on retention
schedules of all public records and act upon requests to destroy
any public records. Any modification of a request or
recommendation shall be approved by the head of the agency
originating the request or recommendation. The department shall
provide forms, approved by the records committee, upon which it
shall prepare recommendations to the committee in cooperation
with the records officer of the department or other agency whose
records are involved. The records committee may issue to state
departments, agencies and political subdivisions thereof
guidelines and best practices on records management and digital
preservation.