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Statutes > Rhode-island > Title-9 > Chapter-9-18 > 9-18-14SECTION 9-18-14
§ 9-18-14 Delivery and recording ofdeposition in perpetual memory. – The officer taking the deposition shall seal up and direct the deposition,together with the petition therefor, to the clerk of the superior court for thecounty in which some one of the persons notified of the taking of thedeposition shall reside, or if no one of the persons so notified shall residein this state, then the court for the county in which the person preferring thepetition shall reside, and in case no one of the persons notified nor theperson preferring the petition shall reside in this state, then in Providencecounty. The clerk shall, on receiving the deposition and petition, so directedand sealed up, on payment of legal fees for recording as in other cases, openand record the deposition and petition and the certificate of the taking of thedeposition, in a book to be specifically kept for that purpose, noting on thedeposition the time when he or she received it and the page of the book inwhich it is recorded, after which he or she shall deliver the deposition andpetition to the party preferring the petition; and no deposition not sorecorded shall be received as evidence in any court in the state, unless thedeposition shall be opened in court at the time of the hearing of the cause inwhich it is used.
