§ 622.30 — Photographic copies — originals destroyed

Iowa § 622.30

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XV: JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
• Ch. 622: EVIDENCE

Text

1. In all cases where depositions are taken by either method provided by law, outside
of the county in which the case is for trial where books of account are competent evidence
in the case, the party desiring to offer the entries of said books as evidence may cause the
same to be photographed by or under the direction of the officer taking the deposition and
such photographic copy when certified by such officer with the officer’s seal attached shall
be attached to the deposition, and if the record shows affirmatively the preliminary proof
required by section 622.28, such copy shall be admitted in evidence with the same force and
effect as the original.
2. If any business, institution, member of a profession or calling, or any department or
agency of government, in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded
any memorandum, writing, entry print, representation or combination thereof, of any act,
transaction, occurrenceoreventandintheregularcourseofbusinesshascausedanyorallof
the same to be recorded, copied, or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm,
microcard, miniature photographic, electronic imaging, electronic data processing, or other
process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for accurately and legibly
reproducinganunalteredimageorreproductionoftheoriginal,theoriginalmaybedestroyed
in the regular course of business unless held in a custodial or fiduciary capacity or unless its
preservation is required by law, except if the originals are records, reports, or other papers
of a county officer they shall not be destroyed until they have been preserved for ten years.
Such reproduction, when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original
itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in existence or not
and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction is likewise admissible in evidence if the
original recording, copy, or reproduction is in existence and available for inspection under
direction of court. The introduction of a reproduced record, enlargement or facsimile, does
not preclude admission of the original.

Legislative History

[S13, §4623; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11283; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §622.30]