Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 13. SECURING ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES AND PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION OF EVIDENCE · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

24-13-5. Production of evidence when item not available; oath.

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

When any person is served with a subpoena for the production of evidence or a notice to produce, seeking books in his or her possession to be used as testimony on the trial of any cause, if the person makes oath that he or she cannot produce the books required without suffering a material injury in his or her business and also makes or causes to be made out a full transcript from the books of all the accounts and dealings with the opposite party, has the transcript examined and sworn to by an impartial witness, and produces the same in court, the witness shall be deemed to have complied with the notice to produce or subpoena for the production of evidence.

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.

Code 1981, § 24-13-5, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

Discovery of documents generally, § 9-11-34.

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