La. Code Evid. art. 1005
This is the official text of La. Code Evid. art. 1005, part of Louisiana’s Code of Evidence — sets the rules for what evidence is admissible in Louisiana courts.
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The contents of an official record, or of a document authorized to be recorded or filed and actually recorded or filed, including data compilations in any form, if otherwise admissible, may be proved by copy, certified as correct in accordance with Article 902 or testified to be correct by a witness who has compared it with the original. If a copy which complies with the foregoing cannot be obtained by the exercise of reasonable diligence, then other evidence of the contents may be given.
Acts 1988, No. 515, ยง1, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.
Acts 1988, No. 515, ยง1, eff. Jan. 1, 1989.
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