A negative written response by a county historical society shall be considered a permanent declination for all or specific categories of court records without additional notification, unless changed by future written notice from the county historical society. The State Historical Society shall have priority should both agencies want possession. When court records have been ordered destroyed by the administrative judge, destruction shall be by supervised shredding, burning, or other method approved by the administrative judge. Electronically or tape-recorded records may be destroyed by employing magnetic or electromagnetic fields. Tapes or films from which all records have been erased may be reused.
All retention periods listed below are minimums.
Unclaimed exhibits determined by the administrative judge to have no value may be disposed of or destroyed in the manner ordered by the administrative judge. All computerized accounting records not purged from the computer system shall be preserved by computer backups.