§ 208. Transfer or destruction of records. The superintendent may, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred eighty-six of the state finance law, effect the transfer, or destruction, of any records made, acquired, or received by the department, if such records are, in his judgment, of no further material value to the state; but, subject to the provisions of section 57.29 of the arts and cultural affairs law, no records or other data required to be filed with the department during his administration, pursuant to any provision of this chapter, may be so destroyed.