§ 7843. Access to Confidential Information and Proprietary Records
TITLE 1: GOVERNMENT DIVISION 7: PLANNING, BUDGETING AND AUDITING § 7843. Access to Confidential Information and Proprietary Records. (a) Confidential or proprietary records or information disclosed to the Public Auditor are subject to the same legal confidentiality and protective restrictions in the office of the Public Auditor as those records and information have in the hands of the official authorized custodian. Any penalties applicable to the officially authorized custodian or his or her employees for the violation of any confidentiality or protective restrictions applicable to those records or infor- mation shall also apply to the employees and agents of the office of the Public Auditor. (b) The office of the Public Auditor may not publish any confidential or pro- prietary information or records in any report, including data and statistics, if that information as published is directly matchable to any individual. (c) Inside the office of the Public Auditor, confidential or proprietary records or information may be used only for official purposes. Source: PL 3-91, § 402.
Source: CNMI Law Revision Commission