A. The magistrate shall maintain and dispose of all documents that are filed with the court pursuant to rules prescribed by the supreme court.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 22-428

  • Magistrate: means an officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense and includes the chief justice and justices of the supreme court, judges of the superior court, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the peace and judges of a municipal court. See Arizona Laws 1-215

B. The magistrate or the magistrate’s designee shall notify the director of the Arizona state library, archives and public records of records designated for destruction pursuant to court rules. The state library shall have the opportunity in a time prescribed by court rule to review and inspect these records. During this time period, the state library may remove any of these records for storage and retrieval.

C. Subsection B of this section does not apply if the director of the Arizona state library, archives and public records has previously approved the destruction of records.