IC 5-15-3
    Chapter 3. Transcribing and Preserving Damaged Records

IC 5-15-3-1
Damage to judicial records; transcription order
    Sec. 1. Whenever any civil order book, probate order book,judgment docket, entry docket or other record book in which are keptany of the records and proceedings of any circuit, superior orcriminal court in this state have been or shall be damaged by fire orotherwise to the extent, that, in the opinion of the judge or suchcourt, it is necessary in order to preserve and perpetuate the contentsthereof, to transcribe the same into a new book, such judge shallmake an order to be entered in the civil order book of such courtordering and directing the clerk of such court to transcribe thecontents of such damaged book into a new book of like size andform, to be provided for that purpose by the county in which suchcourt is held.
(Formerly: Acts 1893, c.19, s.1.)

IC 5-15-3-2
Transcription by clerk
    Sec. 2. The clerk of such court shall thereupon promptly, underthe direction of the court, transcribe the contents of such damagedbook into a new book of like size and form, in plain, legiblehandwriting, and at the close thereof certify that the same is a full,true, correct and complete transcript of the contents of such damagedbook, and after such record shall have been so transcribed andcertified by such clerk, the judge of such court shall examine suchtranscribed record, and if he finds the same to be a correct transcriptof the original, shall so certify at the end of such transcriptimmediately after the certificate of the clerk thereto.
(Formerly: Acts 1893, c.19, s.2.)

IC 5-15-3-3
Preservation of damaged books
    Sec. 3. Such damaged books shall be preserved and kept in theoffice of the clerk of such court.
(Formerly: Acts 1893, c.19, s.3.)

IC 5-15-3-4
Transcribed books; treatment as original
    Sec. 4. Such transcribed book, when so made and certified, shallbear the name and number of the original damaged book of which itis a transcript, and such authenticated transcript therein contained,shall be deemed, held to be and treated as the original, and shall havethe full force and effect of the original for all purposes, and shall beadmitted in evidence in all cases the same as the original.
(Formerly: Acts 1893, c.19, s.4.)
IC 5-15-3-5
Repealed
    (Repealed by P.L.4-1988, SEC.5.)