109.210. Definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Definitions.

109.210. As used in sections 109.200 to 109.310 thefollowing words and terms have the meanings indicated, unless thecontext clearly requires otherwise:

(1) "Agency", any department, office, commission, board orother unit of state government or any political or administrativesubdivisions created for any purpose under the authorities of orby the state of Missouri;

(2) "Boards", the local records board;

(3) "Commission", the state records commission;

(4) "Local record", any record not a state record;

(5) "Record", document, book, paper, photograph, map, soundrecording or other material, regardless of physical form orcharacteristics, made or received pursuant to law or inconnection with the transaction of official business. Libraryand museum material made or acquired and preserved solely forreference or exhibition purposes, extra copies of documentspreserved only for convenience of reference, and stocks ofpublications and of processed documents are not included withinthe definition of records as used in sections 109.200 to 109.310,and are hereinafter designated as "nonrecord" materials;

(6) "Secretary", the secretary of state;

(7) "State record", any record designated or treated as astate record under state law.