Oklahoma Code § 19-155.5v1

Title 19. Counties And County Officers: Destruction of certain reccords after digitizing
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A.  As to the records that are not destroyed as provided for in
Section 155.4 of this title, the county treasurer in each county in
Oklahoma, after compliance with provisions of statute as to the
digitizing of records, storing original negatives, and providing for
convenient viewing of reproductions thereof, is hereby authorized,
each year, to destroy the hereinafter mentioned types of work books,
reports and records that have been on file or stored in his office

for a period of time longer than the period specifically indicated,
as follows:
REQUISITE TIME OF
TYPE OF RECORD RETAINING ORIGINAL
Tax Rolls and Tax
Roll adjustments 6 years
Tax Sale and Resale
Records 6 years
Special Assessment Rolls 6 years after due date
Tax Protest Records Until final settlement
Tax Receipts
Real Property,
personal property 7 years
Special Assessments,
emergency or back
assessments, and
mortgage tax receipts 2 years
Municipal Bond Records 7 years after final
settlement
Personal Tax, Warrants
and Records 2 years
B.  All the records above described in paragraph 3 of Section
155.4 of this title, may be destroyed after two (2) years provided
the same are digitized; and further provided that the State Auditor
and Inspector has audited said records and has not directed such
original records to be retained.  Such digitized records must be
retained until such time as the original, if it had been retained,
would have been seven (7) years old.
Added by Laws 1972, c. 232, § 3, emerg. eff. April 7, 1972.  Amended
by Laws 1979, c. 30, § 68, emerg. eff. April 6, 1979; Laws 2017, c.
22, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2017.

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