AGENCY: District Court (Third District : Salt Lake County)

SERIES: 14159
TITLE: Court case indexes
DATES: 1977-1988.
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical

DESCRIPTION: Miscellaneous civil and criminal case alphabetic indexes created by the County Clerk, to record the names of the parties involved in civil and criminal actions and provide assigned case numbers, facilitating clerical management of and access to the case files.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Microfiche master: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

Microfiche duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

Paper: For records beginning in 1977 through 1988. Retain in State Records Center for 0 years and then microfilm and destroy provided microfilm has passed inspection.

APPRAISAL

Administrative Historical Legal

This disposition is based on the 1993 records retention policy of the Utah Judicial Council (in UCA, Utah Court Rules Annotated, Appendix F), which has remained unchanged since the 1980 issue of the state Records Retention Schedule (Utah State Archives and Records Services, Department of Finance, 1980, page 1). The indexes have historical, administrative, and legal value and facilitate access to the permanent miscellaneous civil and criminal case files which provide documentation about individuals, legal procedure, court history and functions, and other topics useful to legal researchers and historians.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public. UCA 63G-2-301 (1) (f) makes judicial records public unless re- stricted by the rules of criminal or civil procedure. The seal- ing of records does not affect general indices (Rule 4-205[4][E].

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