§ 22-5-702 — Copies, extracts, etc. - Recording - Admissibility as evidence

(a) All certified transcripts and copies of any of the public records in the office of the Commissioner of State Lands, properly certified by the Commissioner of State Lands, shall be entitled to be recorded in all deed records and shall be received in evidence in all courts of this state in the same manner and with like effect as the originals. (b) Any certified extract, entry of field notes, maps, records, or other papers, properly certified by the Commissioner of State Lands, shall be received in evidence in all courts of this state in the same manner as if the copy of the entire field notes, maps, records, or other papers had been produced.

Legislative History

Acts 1881, No. 12, §§ 3, 4, p. 18; C. & M. Dig., §§ 4746, 4747; Pope's Dig., §§ 5825, 5826; Acts 1939, No. 121, § 3; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 10-1203, 10-1204, 10-1208.