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.
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The proponent may use a copy to prove the contents of an official record, -or of a document authorized to bethat was recorded or filed and actually recorded or filed, including data compilations in any form,in a public office as authorized by law-if these conditions are met: the record or document ifs otherwise admissible, may be proved by; and the copy, is certified as correct in accordance with rRule 902 or(4) or is testified to be correct by a witness who has compared it with the original. If a copy which complies with the foregoingno such copy cannot be obtained by the exercise of reasonable diligence, then the proponent may use other evidence ofto prove the contents may be given..
(As amended Apr. 26, 2011, eff. Dec. 1, 2011.)