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



(b)  Upon the expiration of six years after an
election for which a candidate for state elective office or a constitutional
convention has filed a financial disclosure statement, the state ethics
commission shall destroy the candidate's financial disclosure statement and all
copies thereof.



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



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