28 USC 1732 - Sec. 1732. Record made in regular course of business; photographic copies

28 USC - US Code - Title 28: Judiciary and Judicial Procedure (January 2003)


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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, 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, micro-card, miniature photographic, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business unless its preservation is required by law. Such reproduction, 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 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.

This subsection (!1) shall not be construed to exclude from evidence any document or copy thereof which is otherwise admissible under the rules of evidence.


Historical And Revision Notes

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 695 (June 20, 1936, ch. 640, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 1561). Changes in phraseology were made. AMENDMENTS 1975 - Pub. L. 93-595 struck out subsec. (a) which had made admissible as evidence writings or records made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence, or event if made in the regular course of business, and struck out designation "(b)" preceding remainder of section.

See Federal Rules of Evidence set out in Appendix to this title. 1961 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 87-183 struck out "unless held in a custodial or fiduciary capacity or" after "may be destroyed in the regular course of business". 1951 - Act Aug. 29, 1951, Sec. 3, inserted reference to photographic copies in section catchline.

Subsecs. (a), (b). Act Aug. 28, 1951, Sec. 1, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Section Referred To In Other Sections

This section is referred to in title 26 section 5555.



  (!1) So in original.

Probably should be "section".

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