CERTIFIED REPRODUCTIONS OF STATE POLICE RECORDS
Act 79 of 1939
AN ACT to authorize the use and declare the effect of certified reproductions of the records and papers, and certification of no records and papers, in the files of the department of state police in judicial and other proceedings.

History: 1939, Act 79, Eff. Sept. 29, 1939 ;-- Am. 1941, Act 42, Eff. Jan. 10, 1942 ;-- Am. 1992, Act 194, Imd. Eff. Oct. 5, 1992

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

28.201 Certified reproductions of state police records admissible as evidence.

Sec. 1.

A reproduction of a record or paper in the files of the department of state police, made in a medium pursuant to the records media act, or a reproduction consisting of a printout or other output readable by sight from such a medium, certified as a true reproduction by the director of the department of state police, is admissible as evidence in all cases equally and with like effect as the original. A statement, similarly certified as true by the director of the department of state police, that no record or paper is in the files of the department of state police with respect to a particular matter is admissible as evidence in all cases equally and with like effect as testimony to that effect by a member or employee of the department of state police.

History: 1939, Act 79, Eff. Sept. 29, 1939 ;-- Am. 1941, Act 42, Eff. Jan. 10, 1942 ;-- CL 1948, 28.201 ;-- Am. 1992, Act 194, Imd. Eff. Oct. 5, 1992

28.202 Construction of act.

Sec. 2.

This act shall be construed to supplement the law of this state with respect to evidence and its admissibility.

History: 1939, Act 79, Eff. Sept. 29, 1939 ;-- CL 1948, 28.202

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