Retention Schedules

Retention Schedules are timetables that indicate how long a record has business value. Records are appraised according to the following criteria: administrative, fiscal, legal and historical value. Once the value has been fulfilled, one of two things happen: the records are destroyed, or they are preserved for permanent use. Often permanent records are transferred to the Archives for access and long-term care. Before a record can be destroyed, erased, deleted, or made otherwise unavailable, a retention schedule for that record must be established and approved by the State Records Committee.

Scheduling Records

• How to Schedule Records
• Record Series Submission Form
• Notification of Classification
• Edit an Existing Schedule
• Records Pending Approval

Agency-Specific Schedules

• Unique Agency Schedules (every agency should have its own retention schedules listed here)

General Schedules

• State General Retention Schedule in HTML and PDF
  • General Schedules for Departments (only a few have created their own general schedule)
• County General Schedule in HTML and PDF
• Municipal General Schedule in HTML and PDF
  • See also Subject and Title indexes prepared by Orem City
• School District General Schedule in HTML and PDF
• Court Retention Schedule

This page was last updated October 30, 2008.