Except as expressly provided in § 10-619 of this subtitle, this Part III of this subtitle does not authorize: (1) the destruction of a permanent book of account; (2) the destruction of a land record of a clerk of a circuit court; (3) the destruction of any record that relates to the financial operation of a unit of the State government or to collection of State taxes until the requirements of §§ 2-1220 through 2-1227 of this article are met; (4) the destruction of any record until the expiration of the period that a statute expressly sets for that record to be kept; (5) the destruction of any public record that a statute expressly requires to be kept permanently; or (6) the destruction of any record of a court of record unless: (i) the destruction is authorized under § 1-605(d)(6) or § 2- 205 of the Courts Article; (ii) an accurate transcript of the record is in use; or (iii) the record relates to the internal management of or otherwise is a housekeeping record for an office of a clerk of court or register of wills.
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