§46-43  County records.  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the countylegislative body shall determine whether, and the extent to which, the countyshall create, accept, retain, or store in electronic form any records andconvert records to electronic form.

(b)  The director of finance of each county,with the approval of the legislative body and the legal advisor of the county,may authorize the destruction by burning, machine shredding, chemicaldisintegration, or other acceptable method of disposal of:

(1)  All warrants of the county that have been paidand that bear any date ten years prior to the date of destruction; and

(2)  All bonds and interest coupons of the county thathave been canceled or paid and that bear any date two years prior to the dateof destruction.

(c)  The director of finance, with the approvalof the county legislative body and the county's legal advisor, shall determinethe care, custody, and disposition of other county records and may destroy allvouchers, documents, and other records or papers, exclusive of records requiredeither by law or by the legislative body of the county to be permanentlyretained, that have been on file or retained for a minimum period to bedetermined by the legislative body of the county by resolution. [L 1947, c 146,pt of §1; RL 1955, §138-8; am L 1963, c 22, §1; am L 1965, c 95, §1; HRS§46-43; gen ch 1985; am L 2005, c 177, §2]