A. When a registration is canceled, the county clerk shall remove, endorse and file the original certificate of registration according to procedures prescribed by the secretary of state.
B. Canceled original certificates of registration along with any written application of the voter for cancellation or other pertinent orders or certificates shall be retained for six years and then may be destroyed; provided that such records may be destroyed prior to the expiration of the six-year period with the approval of the state records administrator and upon their being properly microfilmed and stored.
History: 1953 Comp., § 3-4-30, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, § 88; 1975, ch. 255, § 50; 1979, ch. 24, § 5; 1987, ch. 249, § 12; 1993, ch. 314, § 28; 1993, ch. 316, § 28.
ANNOTATIONS1993 amendments. — Identical amendments to this section were enacted by Laws 1993, ch. 314, § 28 and Laws 1993, ch. 316, § 28, both effective June 18, 1993, and both approved April 8, 1993, which deleted "an affidavit of" and made a related stylistic change in Subsection A, and substituted "certificate" for "affidavit" in Subsection A and "certificates" for "affidavits" near the beginning of Subsection B. The section was set out as amended by Laws 1993, ch. 316, § 28. See 12-1-8 NMSA 1978.