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889.29

889.29 Photographic copies of business records as evidence.

889.29(1)

(1) If any business, institution or member of a profession or calling in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, and in the regular course of business has caused any or all of the same to be recorded, copied or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, or to be recorded on an optical disk or in electronic format, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business, unless its preservation is required by law. Such reproduction or optical disk record, when reduced to comprehensible format and when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in existence or not and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction of a record or an enlarged copy of a record generated from an original record stored in optical disk or electronic format is likewise admissible in evidence if the original reproduction is in existence and available for inspection under direction of court. The introduction of a reproduced record, enlargement or facsimile, does not preclude admission of the original. No such record is inadmissible solely because it is in electronic format.

889.29(2)

(2) This section does not apply to public records.

889.29(3)

(3) This section shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose of making uniform the law of those states which enact it.

889.29 - ANNOT.

History: 1985 a. 180; 1993 a. 172; 1995 a. 27; 2003 a. 294.

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889.29

889.29 Photographic copies of business records as evidence.

889.29(1)

(1) If any business, institution or member of a profession or calling in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, and in the regular course of business has caused any or all of the same to be recorded, copied or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, or to be recorded on an optical disk or in electronic format, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business, unless its preservation is required by law. Such reproduction or optical disk record, when reduced to comprehensible format and when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in existence or not and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction of a record or an enlarged copy of a record generated from an original record stored in optical disk or electronic format is likewise admissible in evidence if the original reproduction is in existence and available for inspection under direction of court. The introduction of a reproduced record, enlargement or facsimile, does not preclude admission of the original. No such record is inadmissible solely because it is in electronic format.

889.29(2)

(2) This section does not apply to public records.

889.29(3)

(3) This section shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose of making uniform the law of those states which enact it.

889.29 - ANNOT.

History: 1985 a. 180; 1993 a. 172; 1995 a. 27; 2003 a. 294.

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889.29

889.29 Photographic copies of business records as evidence.

889.29(1)

(1) If any business, institution or member of a profession or calling in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, and in the regular course of business has caused any or all of the same to be recorded, copied or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, or to be recorded on an optical disk or in electronic format, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business, unless its preservation is required by law. Such reproduction or optical disk record, when reduced to comprehensible format and when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in existence or not and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction of a record or an enlarged copy of a record generated from an original record stored in optical disk or electronic format is likewise admissible in evidence if the original reproduction is in existence and available for inspection under direction of court. The introduction of a reproduced record, enlargement or facsimile, does not preclude admission of the original. No such record is inadmissible solely because it is in electronic format.

889.29(2)

(2) This section does not apply to public records.

889.29(3)

(3) This section shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose of making uniform the law of those states which enact it.

889.29 - ANNOT.

History: 1985 a. 180; 1993 a. 172; 1995 a. 27; 2003 a. 294.