Georgia § 24-10-1005 - Public records.

§ 24-10-1005. Public records.

The contents of a public record, or of a document authorized to be recorded or filed and actually recorded or filed, including data compilations in any form, if otherwise admissible, may be proved by duplicate, certified as correct in accordance with Code Section 24-9-902 or Code Section 24-9-920 or testified to be correct by a witness who has compared it with the original. If a duplicate which complies with this Code section cannot be obtained by the exercise of reasonable diligence, then other evidence of the contents may be given. (Code 1981, § 24-10-1005 , enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.) Cross references. - Records, documents, and papers of public officers generally, Ch. 18, T. 50. Evidentiary value of certified copies of wills proved and recorded in probate court, § 53-3-5 . Use of photostatic copies of wills in lieu of original in judicial proceedings, §§ 53-3-20 , 53-3-21 . Copies of public records to prove content, Fed. R. Evid. 1005. Editor's notes. - This Code section and Code Section 24-9-902 being so closely allied, and so often construed together by the courts, the notes to one will be found helpful in construing the other.