2013 Mississippi Code
Title 27 - TAXATION AND FINANCE
Chapter 3 - DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
§ 27-3-61 - Filing, preservation and disposition of records; digital or electronic preservation; destruction of paper record after digital or electronic preservation

(1) The Department of Revenue and the Commissioner of Revenue shall file and preserve for the time specified by this section, and as required by any other laws of this state, complete and full records of their official acts with respect to the laws which the Department of Revenue and/or the Commissioner of Revenue are required to enforce and administer, including, but not limited to, copies or reproductions of such copies of the land and personal assessment rolls, and the assessment rolls of railroads and other persons, corporations and associations required to be assessed by the Commissioner of Revenue as the state assessor of railroad. The Department of Revenue and the Commissioner of Revenue shall preserve, in their office, copies or reproductions of such copies of the land assessment rolls of the counties in this state for ten (10) years, and copies or reproductions of such copies of the personal assessment rolls of the counties in this state for three (3) years, the time to begin on the first day of January of the year in which such assessment rolls were made, the assessment rolls of railroads, persons, corporations or associations assessed by the commissioner for ten (10) years, and all other records, documents and papers for three (3) years. The records and documents required by this subsection to be filed and preserved by the Department of Revenue and the Commissioner of Revenue may be preserved digitally and/or electronically.

(2) When the records, documents, rolls, or reproductions of such rolls, papers and correspondence have been preserved by the Department of Revenue and the Commissioner of Revenue for the period of time required by subsection (1) of this section, all of the records, or such parts thereof as may be considered useless, may be disposed of in accordance with approved records control schedules. No records, however, may be destroyed without the approval of the Director of the Department of Archives and History. Nothing in this subsection shall prevent the Department of Revenue and/or the Commissioner of Revenue from destroying the paper copy of any record or document after it has been preserved digitally or electronically.