Section 7-10-1 - Auditor as clerk of county commissioners--Preservation and destruction of records.
7-10-1. Auditor as clerk of county commissioners--Preservation and destruction of records. The county auditor is the clerk of the board of county commissioners and shall keep an accurate record of its official proceedings and carefully preserve all of the documents, books, records, maps, and other papers required to be deposited or kept in his office and carefully perform such other acts and duties as are required by law. However, the county auditor may destroy any record which the records destruction board, acting pursuant to § 1-27-19, declares to have no further administrative, legal, fiscal, research, or historical value.
Source: SL 1887, ch 10, § 4; CL 1887, § 649; RPolC 1903, § 885; RC 1919, § 5944; SDC 1939, § 12.0901; SL 1981, ch 45, § 2.