When the original of any instrument, document or other paper is required or authorized by law to be recorded or is kept on file in any public office of the United States or any agency thereof, the State of South Carolina or any agency thereof or any political subdivision of this State and the original of any such paper is required to be kept on file in any such office, is in the possession of any adverse party or has been lost or destroyed, a certified copy of the record of such paper, if it has been recorded, or copy of such paper, certified by the lawful custodian thereof, if it is kept on file in any such office, must be received in evidence in any court of competent jurisdiction in lieu of the original of such paper. A certified photostatic copy of any such paper may be used in lieu of a certified copy thereof, and such certified photostatic copy shall in all respects be treated as a certified copy under the provisions of this section.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 26-101; 1952 Code Section 26-101; 1942 Code Section 713; 1942 (42) 1451.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 5 - Public Documents, Records And Books
Section 19-5-10. Admissibility of certified copies or certified photostatic copies of documents.
Section 19-5-20. Notice required under Section 19-5-10.
Section 19-5-30. Admissibility of photostatic or certified copies of certain motor vehicle records.
Section 19-5-50. Evidence of appointment of executors or administrators.
Section 19-5-70. Applicability of foregoing section when fraud is alleged.
Section 19-5-210. Admissibility of certified copies of grants issued by North Carolina.
Section 19-5-220. Proof of various instruments.
Section 19-5-230. Foreign evidences of debt shall be admissible only on basis of reciprocity.
Section 19-5-310. Effect of finding of presumed death under Federal Missing Persons Act.
Section 19-5-330. Signature of reports or copies shall prima facie be deemed authorized.
Section 19-5-510. Uniform Business Records as Evidence Act.
Section 19-5-520. Certified business records.
Section 19-5-610. Uniform Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records as Evidence Act.