Ind. Code § 27-1-3-5
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Certified copies of documents and commissioner's certification of facts as prima facie evidence
Official statutory text
Sec. 5. Copies of all certificates, documents, reports, or other papers lawfully received and filed by the department pursuant to this article or any other law of this state, when duly certified by the commissioner or any deputy and authenticated by the official seal of the department, shall be taken and received in all courts and places as prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the certificates, documents, reports, or other papers, and a certificate from the commissioner under the official seal of the department as to the existence or nonexistence of the facts relating to any insurance company which would not appear from a certified copy of any paper lawfully filed with the department shall be taken and received in all courts and places as prima facie evidence of the existence or nonexistence of the facts stated in the certificate from the commissioner.
Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.12. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.7; P.L.136-2018, SEC.144.
Formerly: Acts 1935, c.162, s.12. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.7; P.L.136-2018, SEC.144.
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