AGENCY: Tooele County (Utah). County Clerk

SERIES: 1675
TITLE: Wills filed and index
DATES: 1912-
ARRANGEMENT: Numerical by will number

DESCRIPTION: These are wills filed with the county clerk for safekeeping. As a service to county residents, the county clerk stores the wills for security purposes until needed or retrieved. The files include the actual signed and duly witnessed wills numbered chronologically by date of receipt. The index is divided into two sections wills for probate and wills not for probate. The index includes name of testator and number of will.

RETENTION

Permanent. Retain for 75 year(s) or for 0

DISPOSITION

Transfer to Archives.

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series were specifically approved by the State Records Committee.

APPROVED: 03/1990

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 75 years or until will probated, superseded, or removed and then transfer to State Archives with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Fiscal

These wills have no value to the agency, but are only maintained as a service to county residents. There are no statutes governing this service, but it is based on long held traditions dating to the beginnings of the office of county clerk.