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 ORS 40.510 or testified to be correct by a witness who has compared it with the original. If such a copy cannot be obtained by the exercise of reasonable diligence, then other evidence of the contents may be given.
ORS 40.570
Known as the Oregon Evidence Code
The act spans §§ 40–40 (98 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Allman v. Allman (2021)
Most recently applied in Allman v. Allman (May 2021)
1981 c.892 §75; 1983 c.433 §3
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.