Wisconsin § 889.08 - Copies, how certified, presumptions.
Full text of Wisconsin Wisconsin Statutes § 889.08 — Copies, how certified, presumptions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 889.08. Copies, how certified, presumptions.
889.08(1) (1) Whenever a certified copy is allowed by law to be evidence, the copy shall be certified by the legal custodian of the original to have been compared by the custodian with the original, and to be a true copy thereof or a correct transcript therefrom, or to be a photograph of the original. The certificate must be under the custodian’s official seal or under the seal of the court, public body or board, whose custodian the custodian is, when the custodian, court, body or board is required to have or keep such seal. 889.08(2) (2) The executive officer, secretary or chief clerk of any state agency, and in agencies headed by one person, the head of the agency or his or her deputy, are, for the purposes of this section and s.
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Section 889.08 ("Copies, how certified, presumptions.") is part of the Wisconsin Statutes, the codified statutory law of Wisconsin. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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