47:3-8.1 - Copies of reports of audit filed with director of Division of Local Government; destruction; notice - New Jersey Statutes

47:3-8.1.  Copies of reports of audit filed with director of Division of Local Government;  destruction;  notice
    Every certified duplicate copy of a report of audit filed with the director  of the Division of Local Government in the Department of the Treasury, pursuant  to section 40:4-8 of the Revised Statutes, shall be retained in the files of  the said director for a ten-year period, following which it shall be destroyed  except as otherwise herein provided.  At the conclusion of the ten-year period  the director shall notify the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders or the  clerk of the municipality, as the case may be, in writing that the said  duplicate copy is subject to destruction, unless the county or municipality  desires the same for its permanent files, in which case the director shall  deliver the same to the clerk of the board of chosen freeholders or the clerk  of the municipality, and shall secure therefor a written receipt.  In case any  county or municipality does not desire to receive such duplicate copy, or fails  to advise the director within ninety days after the receipt of the said written notice, the said director shall notify the head of the archives and history bureau of the Department of Education that unless said bureau desires to receive said duplicate copy it will be destroyed.

     L.1952, c. 217, p. 749, s. 1, eff. May 17, 1952.