{"data":{"id":"us-va/17vac15-120-20","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"17VAC15-120-20","heading":"Purpose; applicability","body":"The regulation establishes requirements that public records, regardless of media, that contain social security numbers must be shredded, pulped,  incinerated, made electronically inaccessible or erased so as to make the social security numbers unreadable or undecipherable by any means. These regulations apply only to those records whose retention periods have expired.","path":["Title 17. Libraries And Cultural Resources","Agency 15. Library of Virginia (Library Board)","Chapter 120. Regulations Governing the Destruction of Public Records Containing Social Security Numbers"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/admincode/title17/agency15/chapter120/section20/","current_through":"2026 Regular Session (effective July 1, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:52:17Z","sha256":"37d32543a299fe7953cc223a44e9ed6962b3db8d75da0d61e2b42d22b3ba8919","source_id":"us-va-vac","stale":false,"prev":"us-va/17vac15-120-10","next":"us-va/17vac15-120-30"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}