GroundRules
KRE 1005: Public records
Where this section sits in the code
- KENTUCKY RULES OF EVIDENCE ----- Legislative Research Commission Note (7/1/92). Although denominated "rules," the elements of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence were enacted as statutes by the Kentucky General Assembly. See 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 88; 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324. Originally codified as KRS Chapter 422A in 1990, the Kentucky Rules of Evidence were renumbered by the Reviser of Statutes, effective July 1, 1992, pursuant to 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 34. By an order dated May 12, 1992, the Kentucky Supreme Court "adopt[ed] so much of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence as enacted by HB 241 [1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324] as comes within the rule making power of the Court, pursuant to Ky. Const. sec. 116."
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 filed, 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 foregoing cannot be
obtained by the exercise of reasonable diligence, then other evidence of the contents may
be given.
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