31 CFR 0.208
§ 0.208 Care of agency records.
United States · 31 CFR — Money and Finance: Treasury · Status: effective
Cite this
- Citation
- 31 CFR 0.208, § 0.208 Care of agency records, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/138197
- Permanent ID
ys:prov:138197@1- SHA-256
16aae1b97250631db69c99452cea66b41675fa4c31a5b2620fc71661caf7bc98
The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.
Full text
(a) Employees shall not remove, alter, destroy, mutilate, access, copy, or retain documents or data in the custody of the federal government or provided to them in the course of their employment, without proper authorization.
(b) The term “documents” includes, but is not limited to, any written, printed, typed or other graphic material, recording, computer tape, disk or hard drive, storage medium, blueprint, photograph, or other physical object on which information is recorded, including all copies of the foregoing by whatever means made, and any electronic file, data, or information stored on or created on a government computer, database, application, program, network, or storage medium.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.