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§ 1700. Uniform Business Records as Evidence Act

§ 1700. Uniform Business Records as Evidence Act (a) The term “business,” as used in subsection (b) of this section, shall include every kind of business, profession, occupation, calling, or operation of institutions, whether carried on for profit or not. (b) A record of an act, condition, or event shall, in so far as relevant, […]

§ 1701. Uniform Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records as Evidence Act

§ 1701. Uniform Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records as Evidence Act (a) If any business, institution, member of a profession or calling, or any department or agency of government, in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation, or combination thereof, of any act, […]

§ 1703. Report as to status

§ 1703. Report as to status An official written report or a record or duly certified copy thereof, made by such officer or employee, that a person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is dead or is alive, shall be received in any […]

§ 1704. Finding or report as prima facie evidence

§ 1704. Finding or report as prima facie evidence For the purposes of sections 1702-1704 of this title any finding, report, or record, or duly certified copy thereof, purporting to have been signed by such an officer or employee of the United States as is described in section 1702 of this title, shall prima facie […]

§ 1705. HIV-related testing information

§ 1705. HIV-related testing information (a) No court of this State shall issue an order requiring the disclosure of individually-identifiable HIV-related testing or counseling information unless the court finds that the person seeking the information has demonstrated a compelling need for it that cannot be accommodated by other means. In assessing compelling need, the court […]

§ 1693. Weather record

§ 1693. Weather record A copy of the record of weather observations, taken under the direction of any department of the U.S. government, may be received in evidence in a civil cause in any court, if certified under oath by the officer in charge thereof at the place where the same was taken and kept. […]

§ 1694. Municipal ordinances; references in prosecutions

§ 1694. Municipal ordinances; references in prosecutions In a prosecution for violation of an ordinance or bylaw of a municipal corporation, a copy thereof certified by its clerk to be a lawfully enacted and existing ordinance or bylaw of such municipal corporation shall be prima facie evidence thereof. The allegation that the acts constituting the […]

§ 1695. Records of births, civil marriages, and deaths

§ 1695. Records of births, civil marriages, and deaths (a) A record of births, civil marriages, or deaths required by law to be kept or any certified copy thereof, shall not be competent evidence in any trial to prove a fact stated therein, except the fact of birth, civil marriage, or death. (b) “Fact of […]

§ 1696. Foreign records—births, marriages, and deaths

§ 1696. Foreign records—births, marriages, and deaths A copy of the record of a birth, death, or marriage in another state or foreign country, certified under oath to be a true copy thereof, by a person who certifies under oath that he or she is the legal custodian of such record and that the laws […]