Rule 1005 Public records The contents of an official record, or of a document authorized to be recorded or filed and actually recorded or filed with a governmental agency, either federal, state, county, or municipal, in a place where official records or documents are ordinarily fi led, including data compilations in any form, if otherwise admissible, may be proved by copy, certified as correct in accordance with KRE 902 or testified to be correct by a witness who has compared it with the original. If a copy which complies with the f oregoing cannot be obtained by the exercise of reasonable diligence, then other evidence of the contents may be given. Effective: July 1, 1992 History: Enacted 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 88, sec. 69; renumbered (7/1/92) pursuant to 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 34.
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