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Public Records Act (OPRA) requires that records custodians respond to and fulfill OPRA records request in accordance with the law. Please refer to the information contained in this section for a full understanding of the requirements that OPRA imposes on records custodians.  <br><br><strong><u>For Records Retention and Records Destruction:<br></u></strong></p> <p>The GRC does not establish records retention and records destruction schedules.  These schedules are established by Records Management Services (formally the Division of Archives and Records Management). For more information about records retention and records destruction schedules, go to the Records Management Services website at the following link: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141031125134/http://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/rms/recman.shtml" mce_href="http://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/rms/recman.shtml">http://www.nj.gov/treasury/revenue/rms/recman.shtml</a>.</p></span></p> </div>  </div>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">  <div id="footer"> <table width="780" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="4"> </td> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td height="30" align="right" valign="top"><a href="/web/20141031125134/http://www.nj.gov/grc/about/contact.html" class="headerLink">Contact Us </a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141031125134/http://www.state.nj.us/nj/privacy.html" target="_blank" class="headerLink">Privacy Notice </a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141031125134/http://www.state.nj.us/nj/legal.html" target="_blank" class="headerLink">Legal Statement & Disclaimers</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141031125134/http://www.state.nj.us/nj/accessibility.html" target="_blank" class="headerLink">Accessibility Statement</a></td> <td width="12"> </td> <td width="21" align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141031125134/http://nj.gov/"><img src="/web/20141031125134im_/http://www.nj.gov/grc/images/include_images/nj_@.gif" alt="NJ Home Logo" width="20" height="20" border="0"/></a></td> </tr> </table></td> <td width="4"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="middle"><table border="0" align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="118" align="left" valign="middle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141031125134/http://www.state.nj.us/opra" target="_blank"><img src="/web/20141031125134im_/http://www.nj.gov/grc/images/include_images/opra_central_logo.gif" alt="OPRA Central" width="118" height="42" border="0" class="logo"/></a> </td> <td width="115" align="left" valign="middle"><a href="/web/20141031125134/http://www.nj.gov/opra" target="_blank"><img src="/web/20141031125134im_/http://www.nj.gov/grc/images/include_images/opra_logo.gif" alt="OPRA - Open Public Records Act" width="115" height="42" border="0" class="logo" style="border-right:0px none"/></a></td> <td align="left" class="opraText">Seeing this link on any public agency web site brings up information about the agency's public record access information. 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