---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 3310"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "3310"
heading: "Disposal of records constituting menace to health, life, or property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/3310"
units:
  - "Chapter 33 — Disposal of Records"
---

# §3310. Disposal of records constituting menace to health, life, or property


When the [Archivist](/usc/44/2901.md?p=12) and the head of the agency that has custody of them jointly determine that [records](/usc/44/3301.md?p=a-1) in the custody of an agency of the United States Government are a continuing menace to human health or life or to property, the [Archivist](/usc/44/2901.md?p=12) shall eliminate the menace immediately by any method he considers necessary. When [records](/usc/44/3301.md?p=a-1) in the custody of the [Archivist](/usc/44/2901.md?p=12) are disposed of under this section, the [Archivist](/usc/44/2901.md?p=12) shall report their disposal to the agency from which they were transferred.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1301; Pub. L. 98–497, title I, § 107(b)(24), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2290.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., § 375 (July 7, 1943, ch. 192, § 10, 57 Stat. 382; June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, § 104(a), 63 Stat. 381).

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–497 substituted “Archivist” for “Administrator of General Services” and “Archivist” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 98–497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98–497, set out as a note under section 2102 of this title.