Rule 1005. Public records.
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.
History: Ad. Sup. Ct. Ord. 12729, Dec. 29, 1976, eff. July 1, 1977.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 10. Montana Rules of Evidence
Part Article X. Contents of Writings, Recordings, and Photographs
Rule 1002. Requirement of original
Rule 1003. Admissibility of duplicates, copies of certain entries
Rule 1004. Admissibility of other evidence of contents