§ 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.