{"data":{"id":"us-ky/kre-1005","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRE 1005","heading":"Public records","body":"The contents of an official record, or of a document authorized to be recorded or filed and\nactually recorded or filed with a governmental agency, either federal, state, county, or\nmunicipal, in a place where official records or documents are ordinarily fi led, including\ndata compilations in any form, if otherwise admissible, may be proved by copy, certified\nas correct in accordance with KRE 902 or testified to be correct by a witness who has\ncompared it with the original. If a copy which complies with the f oregoing cannot be\nobtained by the exercise of reasonable diligence, then other evidence of the contents may\nbe given.","path":["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.\""],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=20421","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T21:00:11Z","sha256":"e1b6039f353098b50a313928083276f3af2c56576aa29cd91bd5959f327d18d5","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/kre-1004","next":"us-ky/kre-1006"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}