Maryland State Government Section 10-638

      Except as expressly provided in § 10-642 of this subtitle, this Part V of this subtitle does not authorize:

            (1)      the destruction of a permanent book of account;

            (2)      the destruction of a land record of a clerk of a circuit court;

            (3)      the destruction of any record that relates to the financial operation of a unit of the State government or to collection of State taxes until the requirements of §§ 2-1220 through 2-1227 of this article are met;

            (4)      the destruction of any record until the expiration of the period that a statute expressly sets for that record to be kept;

            (5)      the destruction of any public record that a statute expressly requires to be kept permanently; or

            (6)      the destruction of any record of a court of record unless:

                  (i)      the destruction is authorized under § 1-605(d)(6) or § 2-205 of the Courts Article;

                  (ii)      an accurate transcript of the record is in use; or

                  (iii)      the record relates to the internal management of or otherwise is a housekeeping record for an office of a clerk of court or register of wills.