[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR379.3]

[Page 147-148]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 379_PRESERVATION OF RECORDS--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  379.3  Records required to be retained.

    Companies subject to this part shall retain records for the minimum 
retention periods provided in appendix A to this part. After the 
required retention periods, the records may be destroyed at the 
discretion of each company's management. It shall be the obligation

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of the subject company to maintain records that adequately support 
financial and operational data required by the Secretary. The company 
may request a ruling from the Secretary on the retention of any record. 
The provisions of this part shall not be construed as excusing 
compliance with the lawful requirements of any other governmental body 
prescribing longer retention periods for any category of records.