Section 255-2-7 - DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS STORED AT THE STATE RECORDS CENTERA. Agency records stored at the State Records Center shall only be destroyed when retention requirements have been fulfilled and a disposition notification has been signed by a Records Officer providing authority to destroy the records.B. Records Management will send a State Records Center Disposition Notification to the agency of record when any records have fulfilled required retention periods per approved schedules. It is the agency's responsibility to review the disposition and comply with the agreed to schedule or to submit an amendment if records are required longer due to program changes or other legal purposes not previously anticipated.C. State records may not be destroyed if any active or pending litigation, audit, open records request, or appeal of an open records decision, that involves the records is in question. This applies until the completion of the action and the resolution of all issues that arise from the action, or until the expiration of the retention period, whichever is later.D. The Maine State Archivist reserves the right to return records which have passed their expired retention date by two years. This occurs when any agency refuses to sign off on disposition notifications and makes no attempt at communicating with State Records Center staff and/or revising their retention schedules.E. The Maine State Archivist reserves the right to destroy records which have passed their expired retention date by two years for those agencies which become defunct; there are no longer any contact people and no processing information has been forwarded to State Records Center staff. (For information on Methods of Destruction and Unlawful Removal or Destruction of Records see Chapter 1.)