Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 9. AUTHENTICATION AND IDENTIFICATION · Article 2. SPECIFIC TYPES OF RECORDS AND EVIDENCE

24-9-920. Authentication of Georgia state and county records.

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

The certificate or attestation of any public officer either of this state or any county thereof or any clerk or keeper of county, consolidated government, or municipal records in this state shall give sufficient validity or authenticity to any copy or transcript of any record, document, paper or file, or other matter or thing in such public officer’s respective office, or pertaining thereto, to admit the same in 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.

History

Code 1981, § 24-9-920, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

Cross references

Proof of lack of public record by evidence showing that record cannot be found, § 9-11-44. Records, documents, and papers of public officers generally, T. 50, C. 18.

Law reviews

For article, “An Analysis of Georgia’s Proposed Rules of Evidence,” see 26 Ga. St. B.J. 173 (1990). For article, “Dancing with the Big Boys: Georgia Adopts (most of) the Federal Rules of Evidence,” see 63 Mercer L. Rev. 1 (2011).

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