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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 11. ESTABLISHMENT OF LOST RECORDS · Article 1. PUBLIC RECORDS

24-11-2. Establishment of lost records.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    Where any original public records have been lost, mutilated, stolen, or destroyed, the custodian may establish duplicates in accordance with the provisions of this article. When such public records are established by duplicates, they shall have all of the effect in evidence as the original records would have had.#

  2. (b)

    The custodian of the lost, mutilated, stolen, or destroyed public records shall bring a petition to establish such records in the superior court of the county in which the public records were located.#

  3. (c)

    The petition shall set forth the fact that some portion of the public records has been lost, mutilated, stolen, or destroyed, specifying as nearly as may be possible the books or parts of the books in which those records existed, and shall pray for the establishment of such records.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 24-11-2, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t24-ch8-14-(v20a)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V20A, 2023 edition, page 445; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 5c80296e7624.