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Terminated records: |
Records which were created or received by a governmental body and which were managed by a records classification system no longer in use. |
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Transitory records: |
Transitory records are those records created by officials but not required by the governmental bodies for which they work to control, support or document the delivery of services, or to carry out operations, to make decisions, or to give account of the activities of government. Such records are needed by officials for only a limited time to facilitate the completion of routine actions or to prepare a subsequent record required by a governmental body for the above-mentioned reasons.
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