CHAPTER 31-08.1
UNIFORM PRESERVATION OF PRIVATE BUSINESS RECORDS ACT
31-08.1-01. Definitions. As used in this chapter:
1.
"Business" includes every kind of private business, profession, occupation, calling,<br>or operation of a private institution, whether for profit or nonprofit.
2.
"Record" or "business record" includes any book of account, voucher, document,<br>canceled check, payroll, correspondence, record of sales, personnel, equipment<br>production, report relating to any of these items, and any other business paper.
3.
"Reproduction" means a reproduction or durable medium for making a reproduction<br>obtained
by
any photographic, photostatic, microfilm,
microcard, miniature
photographic, or other process that accurately reproduces or forms a durable<br>medium for reproducing the original.
31-08.1-02. Period of preservation. Unless a specific period is designated by law for
preservation, any business record that state law requires a person to keep or preserve may be<br>destroyed after the expiration of three years from the making of the record without constituting an<br>offense under state law. This section does not apply to any minute book of any corporation or to<br>any record of sales or other transactions involving a weapon, poison, or other dangerous article<br>or substance capable of use in the commission of a crime.
31-08.1-03.
Preservation of reproductions.
If in the course of regular business a
person makes a reproduction of an original business record, the preservation of the reproduction<br>constitutes compliance with any state law requiring that a business record be kept or preserved.
31-08.1-04. Destruction of records by state officers. This chapter does not diminish
the authority of an officer of this state under existing law to permit the destruction of any business<br>record.
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