§84-17.5  Disclosure files; disposition. (a)  All financial disclosure statements filed by a legislator, employee, ordelegate to a constitutional convention shall be maintained by the state ethicscommission during the term of office of the legislator, employee, or delegateand for a period of six years thereafter.  Upon the expiration of the six-yearperiod, the financial disclosure statement and all copies thereof shall bedestroyed.

(b)  Upon the expiration of six years after anelection for which a candidate for state elective office or a constitutionalconvention has filed a financial disclosure statement, the state ethicscommission shall destroy the candidate's financial disclosure statement and allcopies thereof.

(c)  Financial disclosure statements providedfor in section 84-17(d) shall cease to be public records once the six-yearperiod in subsection (a) or (b) has run.

(d)  Nothing herein shall bar the state ethicscommission from retaining a financial disclosure statement or copy of a financialdisclosure statement that has become part of a charge case or advisory opinionrequest, or is part of an ongoing investigation. [L 1989, c 219, §1; am L 1993,c 27, §1; am L 1997, c 49, §1]