{"data":{"id":"us-mt/m.-r.-evid.-1005","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"M. R. Evid. 1005","heading":"Public records.","body":"The contents of an official record, or of a document authorized to be recorded or filed and actually recorded or filed, including data compilations in any form, if otherwise admissible, may be proved by copy, certified as correct in accordance with Rule 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.","path":["TITLE 26. EVIDENCE","CHAPTER 10. MONTANA RULES OF EVIDENCE","Article X. Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0260/chapter_0100/part_0100/section_0050/0260-0100-0100-0050.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:50:23Z","sha256":"03fdef28a88f1eec2d04384718ab431e5ab884c0cfd39e3fa97bc58c59c41692","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/m.-r.-evid.-1004","next":"us-mt/m.-r.-evid.-1006"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}