74-2014. Destruction of certain records by director of vehicles authorized, when. Subject to the consent of the state records board, the director of vehicles is authorized to destroy or otherwise dispose of the following records:

(a) Application for title and registration on a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, including motorcycles and motorized bicycles, and the supporting papers in connection with the issuance of titles after microfilming of the same;

(b) applications for reregistration, including applications for lost license plates, except any application for truck or truck tractor registration purchased under quarterly registration when there are unpaid quarterly payment, or payments shall not be destroyed;

(c) dealers' reports for the second preceding year and before;

(d) dealers' applications for the second preceding year and before;

(e) all correspondence;

(f) applications for learner's permits and drivers' licenses that are two years old;

(g) records of stolen and recovered cars three years old;

(h) microfilm containing information relating to applications for reregistration three years after the registration expiration date; and

(i) proration applications, and all correspondence and other papers in the applicant's file over five years old. With the exception of the unpaid quarterly payment registration applications and proration applications, correspondence and other proration papers, the division may at any time microfilm any of the above records and destroy the original.

History: L. 1953, ch. 394, § 1; L. 1957, ch. 426, § 1; L. 1963, ch. 399, § 1; L. 1975, ch. 427, § 236; L. 1985, ch. 43, § 15; July 1.