{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-2902","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 12-2902","heading":"Self-authentication","body":"Extrinsic evidence of authenticity as a condition precedent to\n\nadmissibility is not required with respect to the following:\n\n1. A document bearing a seal purporting to be that of the\n\nUnited States or of any state, district, commonwealth, territory or\n\ninsular possession thereof, including the Panama Canal Zone, or the\n\ntrust territory of the Pacific Islands, or of a political\n\nsubdivision, department, office or agency thereof, and a signature\n\npurporting to be an attestation or execution;\n\n2. A document purporting to bear the signature in his official\n\ncapacity of an officer or employee of any entity included in\n\nparagraph 1 of this section, having no seal, if a public officer\n\nhaving a seal and having official duties in the district or\n\npolitical subdivision of the officer or employee certifies under\n\nseal that the signer has the official capacity and that the\n\nsignature is genuine;\n\n3. A document purporting to be executed or attested in his\n\nofficial capacity by a person authorized by the laws of a foreign\n\ncountry to make the execution or attestation, and accompanied by a\n\nfinal certification as to the genuineness of the signature and\n\nofficial position:\n\na. of the executing or attesting person, or\n\nb. of any foreign official whose certificate of\n\ngenuineness of signature and official position relates\n\nto the execution or attestation or is in a chain of\n\ncertificates of genuineness or signature and official\n\nposition relating to the execution or attestation. A\n\nfinal certification may be made by a secretary of\n\nembassy or legation, consul general, consul, vice\n\nconsul or consular agent of the United States, or a\n\ndiplomatic or consular official of the foreign country\n\nassigned or accredited to the United States. If\n\nreasonable opportunity has been given to all parties\n\nto investigate the authenticity and accuracy of\n\nofficial documents, the court may, for good cause\n\nshown, order that they be treated as presumptively\n\nauthentic without final certification or permit them\n\nto be evidenced by an attested summary with or without\n\nfinal certification;\n\n4. A copy of an official record or report or entry therein, or\n\nof a document authorized by law to be recorded or filed and actually\n\nrecorded or filed in a public office, including data compilations in\n\nany form, certified as correct by the custodian or other person\n\nauthorized to make the certification, by certificate complying with\n\nparagraph 1, 2 or 3 of this section or complying with any statute or\n\nby rules prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to statutory\n\nauthority;\n\n5. Books, pamphlets or other publications purporting to be\n\nissued by public authority;\n\n6. Printed materials purporting to be newspapers or\n\nperiodicals;\n\n7. Inscriptions, signs, tags or labels purporting to have been\n\naffixed in the course of business and indicating ownership, control\n\nor origin;\n\n8. Records accompanied by a certificate of acknowledgment under\n\nthe hand and the seal of a notary public or other officer authorized\n\nby law to take acknowledgments;\n\n9. Commercial paper, signatures thereon, and related records to\n\nthe extent provided by general commercial law;\n\n10. Any signature, record or other matter declared by act of\n\nthe Legislature to be presumptively or prima facie genuine or\n\nauthentic;\n\n11. The original or a duplicate of a domestic record of acts,\n\nevents, conditions, opinions, or diagnoses if:\n\na. the document is accompanied by a written declaration\n\nunder oath of the custodian of the record, or other\n\nqualified individual that the record was made, at or\n\nnear the time of the occurrence of the matters set\n\nforth by or from information transmitted by a person\n\nhaving knowledge of those matters; was kept in the\n\ncourse of the regularly conducted business activity;\n\nand was made pursuant to the regularly conducted\n\nactivity,\nwritten declaration\n\nunder oath of the custodian of the record, or other\n\nqualified individual that the record was made, at or\n\nnear the time of the occurrence of the matters set\n\nforth by or from information transmitted by a person\n\nhaving knowledge of those matters; was kept in the\n\ncourse of the regularly conducted business activity;\n\nand was made pursuant to the regularly conducted\n\nactivity,\n\nb. the party intending to offer the record in evidence\n\ngives notice of that intention to all adverse parties\n\nand makes the record available for inspection\n\nsufficiently in advance of its offer to provide the\n\nadverse parties with a fair opportunity to challenge\n\nthe record, and\n\nc. notice is given to the proponent, sufficiently in\n\nadvance of the offer to provide the proponent with a\n\nfair opportunity to meet the objection or obtain the\n\ntestimony of a foundation witness, raising a genuine\n\nquestion as to the trustworthiness or authenticity of\n\nthe record;\n\n12. The original or a duplicate of a record from a foreign\n\ncountry of acts, events, conditions, opinions, or diagnoses if:\n\na. the document is accompanied by a written declaration\n\nunder oath of the custodian of the record, or other\n\nqualified individual that the record was made, at or\n\nnear the time of the occurrence of the matters set\n\nforth by or from information transmitted by a person\n\nhaving knowledge of those matters; was kept in the\n\ncourse of a regularly conducted business activity; and\n\nwas made pursuant to the regularly conducted activity,\n\nb. the party intending to offer the record in evidence\n\ngives notice of that intention to all adverse parties\n\nand makes the record available for inspection\n\nsufficiently in advance of its offer to provide the\n\nadverse parties with a fair opportunity to challenge\n\nthe record, and\n\nc. notice is given to the proponent, sufficiently in\n\nadvance of the offer to provide the proponent with a\n\nfair opportunity to meet the objection or obtain the\n\ntestimony of a foundation witness, raising a genuine\n\nquestion as to the trustworthiness or authenticity of\n\nthe record;\n\n13. Records generated by an electronic process or system that\n\nproduces an accurate result, as shown by a certification of a\n\nqualified person that complies with the certification requirements\n\nof paragraph 11 or 12 of this section. The proponent shall also\n\nmeet the notice requirements of paragraph 11 of this section; and\n\n14. Data copied from an electronic device, storage medium, or\n\nfile, if authenticated by a process of digital identification, as\n\nshown by a certification of a qualified person that complies with\n\nthe certification requirements of paragraph 11 or 12 of this\n\nsection. The proponent shall also meet the notice requirements of\n\nparagraph 11 of this section.","path":["OK Code","Title 12"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os12.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"891290895f0f8c841067662e38cf609f2b18ebcf6e7eba01a27342c2107df606","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-2901","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-12-12-2903"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}