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Abolition or Disbanding of a State Agency
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Executive Branch NAC 239.722

Local Government NAC 239.165

Record: NRS 52.260 (6)(c)

Public record: NRS 52.085, NRS 52.265, NRS 239.010

Official state record: NRS 239.080, NAC 239.705 

Ancient document: NRS 52.095

Foreign public document: NRS 52.115

Certified copies of public records: NRS 52.125, NRS 52.165, NRS 52.247, NRS 52.260

Official State Records NRS 239.080

Local Government Records NRS 239.124, NAC 239.155

Local Government NAC 239.051 Defined

State Agency NAC 239.705(2) Destruction

State Agency, NAC 239.711

Defined, NRS 205.4617, NRS 603A.040

Social Security Numbers, Confidential NRS 239B.030

Databases, Confidential NRS 239B.040

Executive Branch NRS 239.080, NAC 239.696-.699, NRS 378.255, NRS 378.280(1), SAM 0402

Board of Regents: NAC 239.745, SAM 0414 

NDOT: NRS 239.085, NRS 378.280(2)

Local Government: NRS 239.121-.125, NAC 239.145

State Agencies: NRS 239.080, NRS 239.085, NRS 239.125, NAC 239.711-.722

Local Governments: NRS 239.125, NAC 239.145, NAC 239.155

State Records Center NRS 378.255

Standards NAC 239.740

Off-site storage permission NAC 239.740, NAC 239.705

State Historical Records Advisory Board (SHRAB): 

Destruction Hold - Suspending the process of routine destruction of records when it is determined that the records may be relevant to foreseeable or pending litigation, government investigation, or audit.

File Break - The event date where existing file folders are closed and new file folders are opened. This action is necessary to implement retention periods and usually occurs at the end of the fiscal year or the end of the calendar year.

File Management - Oversight of the administration of activities relating to the creation, use, maintenance, and disposal of files in order to ensure that the operations are efficient and economical.

File Plan - A written procedure and set of guidelines for organizing files based upon a specific system, such as alphabetic, numeric, subject, functional, etc.

General Records Retention Schedule - A retention schedule governing the disposition of records series that are common to several or all agencies.

Inactive Records - Records that are referred to so infrequently in the conduct of current business that they may be removed from the office and either retired to the State Records Center or destroyed, per the appropriate records retention schedule approved by the State Records Committee.

Life Cycle - The progression of records from creation and receipt through distribution, use and maintenance, to a final disposition.

Non-Record - This includes publications, worksheets, drafts, routine replies, telephone messages, blank forms, and extra copies of documents created for convenience or public distribution. Non-records may be destroyed when no longer administratively needed. NAC 239.051 "Nonrecord" defined.

Office of Record - The office responsible for maintaining the most complete set of a particular records series.

Official State Records - An Official State Record includes without limitation any: papers, unpublished books, maps, photographs, electronic information, and other materials made or received by a state agency as evidence of the organization, operation, policy or activity of that organization. NRS 239.080 Also known as public record or as record. Does not include Non-Records.

Permanent Records - Records of enduring, historical, or research value that are retained permanently in the State Archives or in an office after a period of active use. Also called Archival Records

Public Records - Documents a transaction or activity which includes all mediums regardless of physical form or characteristic and is considered a public record if it is produced, collected, received or retained in pursuance of law or in connection with the transaction of public business.

Records Center - A facility within the Nevada State Library and Archives established to store the inactive records of Executive Branch agencies.

Records Disposition Authority (RDA) - The control number assigned to a records series.

Records Management - The systematic control of records throughout their life cycle.

Records Official - Designation of records official for certain state agencies; forms and procedures applicable to requests for public records.

      1. The head of each agency of the Executive Department shall designate one or more employees of the agency to act as records official for the agency.

      2. A records official designated pursuant to subsection 1 shall carry out the duties imposed pursuant to this chapter on the agency of the Executive Department that designated him or her with respect to a request to inspect or copy a public book or record of the agency.

      3. The State Library, Archives and Public Records Administrator, pursuant to NRS 378.255 and in cooperation with the Attorney General, shall prescribe:

      (a) The form for a request by a person to inspect or copy a public book or record of an agency of the Executive Department pursuant to NRS 239.0107;

      (b) The form for the written notice required to be provided by an agency of the Executive Department pursuant to paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of subsection 1 of NRS 239.0107; and

      (c) By regulation the procedures with which a records official must comply in carrying out his or her duties.

      4. Each agency of the Executive Department shall make available on any website maintained by the agency on the Internet or its successor the forms and procedures prescribed by the State Library, Archives and Public Records Administrator and the Attorney General pursuant to subsection 3.

      (Added to NRS by 2013, 2267)

     1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the head of each state agency shall designate a records officer. A person designated pursuant to NRS 239.008 to act as records official for a state agency may be designated as the records officer of the state agency pursuant to this section.

     2. A records officer shall:

     (a) Act as a liaison between the state agency and the Division on issues relating to the retention and disposition of the records of the state agency;

     (b) Oversee and administer the records management program of the state agency established pursuant to NAC 239.696;

     (c) Approve or disapprove the documentation for each transfer of records from the state agency to the records center;

     (d) Approve or disapprove all requests for the disposition of a record pursuant to the appropriate schedule;

     (e) Attend training classes offered by the Division on the retention and disposition of records; and

     (f) Coordinate the training of officers, employees and agents of the state agency on the retention and disposition of records.

     3. Until the head of a state agency appoints a records officer, the head of the state agency is ex officio the records officer of the state agency.

     4. The head of each state agency:

     (a) May designate a new records officer at any time; and

     (b) Shall notify the Division, in writing, if the records officer has been replaced.

     5. The Division shall:

     (a) Maintain a current list of the records officer of each state agency;

     (b) Provide to each records officer any publications of the Division relating to the retention and disposition of records; and

     (c) Direct to the records officer of a state agency any correspondence relating to the retention and disposition of records of the state agency.

     (Added to NAC by St. Librarian, eff. 12-4-91; A by Library & Archives Admin’r by R090-06, 6-1-2006; R118-12, 10-24-2014)

Records Series - File units or documents that are kept together because they relate to a particular subject or function, result from the same activity, document a specific type of transaction, take a particular physical form, or have some other relationship arising out of their creation, receipt, maintenance, or use.