Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-2902

Extrinsic evidence of authenticity as a condition precedent to

admissibility is not required with respect to the following:

1. A document bearing a seal purporting to be that of the

United States or of any state, district, commonwealth, territory or

insular possession thereof, including the Panama Canal Zone, or the

trust territory of the Pacific Islands, or of a political

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subdivision, department, office or agency thereof, and a signature

purporting to be an attestation or execution;

2. A document purporting to bear the signature in his official

capacity of an officer or employee of any entity included in

paragraph 1 of this section, having no seal, if a public officer

having a seal and having official duties in the district or

political subdivision of the officer or employee certifies under

seal that the signer has the official capacity and that the

signature is genuine;

3. A document purporting to be executed or attested in his

official capacity by a person authorized by the laws of a foreign

country to make the execution or attestation, and accompanied by a

final certification as to the genuineness of the signature and

official position:

a. of the executing or attesting person, or

b. of any foreign official whose certificate of

genuineness of signature and official position relates

to the execution or attestation or is in a chain of

certificates of genuineness or signature and official

position relating to the execution or attestation. A

final certification may be made by a secretary of

embassy or legation, consul general, consul, vice

consul or consular agent of the United States, or a

diplomatic or consular official of the foreign country

assigned or accredited to the United States. If

reasonable opportunity has been given to all parties

to investigate the authenticity and accuracy of

official documents, the court may, for good cause

shown, order that they be treated as presumptively

authentic without final certification or permit them

to be evidenced by an attested summary with or without

final certification;

4. A copy of an official record or report or entry therein, or

of a document authorized by law to be recorded or filed and actually

recorded or filed in a public office, including data compilations in

any form, certified as correct by the custodian or other person

authorized to make the certification, by certificate complying with

paragraph 1, 2 or 3 of this section or complying with any statute or

by rules prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to statutory

authority;

5. Books, pamphlets or other publications purporting to be

issued by public authority;

6. Printed materials purporting to be newspapers or

periodicals;

7. Inscriptions, signs, tags or labels purporting to have been

affixed in the course of business and indicating ownership, control

or origin;

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8. Records accompanied by a certificate of acknowledgment under

the hand and the seal of a notary public or other officer authorized

by law to take acknowledgments;

9. Commercial paper, signatures thereon, and related records to

the extent provided by general commercial law;

10. Any signature, record or other matter declared by act of

the Legislature to be presumptively or prima facie genuine or

authentic;

11. The original or a duplicate of a domestic record of acts,

events, conditions, opinions, or diagnoses if:

a. the document is accompanied by a written declaration

under oath of the custodian of the record, or other

qualified individual that the record was made, at or

near the time of the occurrence of the matters set

forth by or from information transmitted by a person

having knowledge of those matters; was kept in the

course of the regularly conducted business activity;

and was made pursuant to the regularly conducted

activity,
written declaration

under oath of the custodian of the record, or other

qualified individual that the record was made, at or

near the time of the occurrence of the matters set

forth by or from information transmitted by a person

having knowledge of those matters; was kept in the

course of the regularly conducted business activity;

and was made pursuant to the regularly conducted

activity,

b. the party intending to offer the record in evidence

gives notice of that intention to all adverse parties

and makes the record available for inspection

sufficiently in advance of its offer to provide the

adverse parties with a fair opportunity to challenge

the record, and

c. notice is given to the proponent, sufficiently in

advance of the offer to provide the proponent with a

fair opportunity to meet the objection or obtain the

testimony of a foundation witness, raising a genuine

question as to the trustworthiness or authenticity of

the record;

12. The original or a duplicate of a record from a foreign

country of acts, events, conditions, opinions, or diagnoses if:

a. the document is accompanied by a written declaration

under oath of the custodian of the record, or other

qualified individual that the record was made, at or

near the time of the occurrence of the matters set

forth by or from information transmitted by a person

having knowledge of those matters; was kept in the

course of a regularly conducted business activity; and

was made pursuant to the regularly conducted activity,

b. the party intending to offer the record in evidence

gives notice of that intention to all adverse parties

and makes the record available for inspection

sufficiently in advance of its offer to provide the

adverse parties with a fair opportunity to challenge

the record, and

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c. notice is given to the proponent, sufficiently in

advance of the offer to provide the proponent with a

fair opportunity to meet the objection or obtain the

testimony of a foundation witness, raising a genuine

question as to the trustworthiness or authenticity of

the record;

13. Records generated by an electronic process or system that

produces an accurate result, as shown by a certification of a

qualified person that complies with the certification requirements

of paragraph 11 or 12 of this section. The proponent shall also

meet the notice requirements of paragraph 11 of this section; and

14. Data copied from an electronic device, storage medium, or

file, if authenticated by a process of digital identification, as

shown by a certification of a qualified person that complies with

the certification requirements of paragraph 11 or 12 of this

section. The proponent shall also meet the notice requirements of

paragraph 11 of this section.