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Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-155.2: Destruction of certain old records in clerk's office

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  1. OK Code
  2. Title 19

A. The county clerk in each county in Oklahoma is hereby

authorized each year to destroy the following workbooks, reports and

transient and subsidiary records that have been on file or stored in

the office the period of time specifically provided herein.

1. After the expiration of one (1) year:

a. unused blank forms printed for fiscal year series, and

b. blank forms obsolete by change of law;

2. After the expiration of five (5) years:

a. financing statements, except as otherwise provided by

Article 9 of Title 12A of the Oklahoma Statutes or

other statute, chattel mortgages, bills of sale,

releases and renewals thereof, after the same ceases

to be effective,

b. all county claims, claim calendars,

c. chattel mortgage indexes,

d. appropriation ledgers, warrant ledgers, financial

ledgers,

e. requisitions,

f. upon retirement, discharge, or termination of

employment, loyalty oath of said employee or officer,

g. certificates of error,

h. copies of reports and remittances, deposits and

receipts,

i. monthly reports to the State Auditor and Inspector and

reports to other officers and warrant issues,

j. daily reports including daily report jacket and all

contents therein,

k. physician liens, insurance agent's liens, hospital

liens, thresher and combiners liens, mechanic and

materialmans liens, oil and gas liens, vendor liens,

banker liens, mining liens, district attorney liens,

labor liens, and personal property liens,

l. reports, checks, purchase orders and other bookkeeping

records,

m. all tax protests, evidences, letters of orders of the

board, letters of increased assessment,

correspondence, reports, docket books, lists of

parcels under protest, agendas, and

n. records pertaining to the Open Meetings Act and Open

Records Act;

3. After the expiration of seven (7) years after the final

settlement following appeal to district court, all tax protest

records;

4. After the expiration of seven (7) years, balance sheets,

deposit slips, tax records, W-2's and investment authorization slips

for the retirement system; and

5. After the expiration of ten (10) years:

a. all tax rolls and tax roll adjustments, and

b. all special assessment rolls.

B. The State Library may be given any records that would

otherwise be destroyed.

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