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Historical textIn force on June 1, 2015Source: annual CFR editions 1998–2016

§ 379.7 Preservation of records.

Wording first on file in the 1998 annual edition, superseded April 16, 2018.

govinfo, 2014 edition ↗
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49 CFR § 379.7 — Preservation of records.. Text in force on June 1, 2015. This wording effective October 1, 1998 to April 16, 2018. Source: govinfo, 2014 edition, https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CFR-2014-title49-vol5/CFR-2014-title49-vol5-sec379-7. Retrieved from FMCSR.com, https://fmcsr.com/reg/379.7?asof=2015-06-01, on October 26, 2026. Unofficial compilation; verify against the official source.

(a) All records may be preserved by any technology that is immune to alteration, modification, or erasure of the underlying data and will enable production of an accurate and unaltered paper copy.

(b) Records not originally preserved on hard copy shall be accompanied by a statement executed by a person having personal knowledge of the facts indicating the type of data included within the records. One comprehensive statement may be executed in lieu of individual statements for multiple records if the type of data included in the multiple records is common to all such records. The records shall be indexed and retained in such a manner as will render them readily accessible. The company shall have facilities available to locate, identify and produce legible paper copies of the records.

(c) Any significant characteristic, feature or other attribute that a particular medium will not preserve shall be clearly indicated at the beginning of the applicable records as appropriate.

(d) The printed side of forms, such as instructions, need not be preserved for each record as long as the printed matter is common to all such forms and an identified specimen of the form is maintained on the medium for reference.

Amendment history

3 distinct wordings on file since Oct. 1, 1998
  1. June 15, 2018 → presenteCFR, day-precisediff vs. previous
    [83 FR 16225, Apr. 16, 2018]
  2. April 16, 2018 → June 15, 2018eCFR, day-precisediff vs. previous
  3. Oct. 1, 1998 → April 16, 2018annual editions 1998–2016viewing

A new entry appears whenever the regulatory words change between government snapshots. Day-precise from the eCFR (2017 onward); before that, one snapshot per annual CFR edition (revised as of October 1). Bracketed citations are the Federal Register history printed with the section.