The department is authorized to destroy all records of the financial institution of which it was in possession as receiver and all records of such receivership at the expiration of six years from the date of the absolute confirmation of its final account, except where any provision of this chapter expressly provides a different method for the disposition of the records or a longer period for their preservation.
(Code 1933, § 41A-816, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 705, § 1.)