622.30 - PHOTOGRAPHIC COPIES -- ORIGINALS DESTROYED.

        622.30  PHOTOGRAPHIC COPIES -- ORIGINALS DESTROYED.         1.  In all cases where depositions are taken by either method      provided by law, outside of the county in which the case is for trial      where books of account are competent evidence in the case, the party      desiring to offer the entries of said books as evidence may cause the      same to be photographed by or under the direction of the officer      taking the deposition and such photographic copy when certified by      such officer with the officer's seal attached shall be attached to      the deposition, and if the record shows affirmatively the preliminary      proof required by section 622.28, such copy shall be admitted in      evidence with the same force and effect as the original.         2.  If any business, institution, member of a profession or      calling, or any department or agency of government, in the regular      course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum,      writing, entry print, representation or combination thereof, of any      act, transaction, occurrence or event and in the regular course of      business has caused any or all of the same to be recorded, copied, or      reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard,      miniature photographic, electronic imaging, electronic data      processing, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a      durable medium for accurately and legibly reproducing an unaltered      image or reproduction of the original, the original may be destroyed      in the regular course of business unless held in a custodial or      fiduciary capacity or unless its preservation is required by law,      except if the originals are records, reports, or other papers of a      county officer they shall not be destroyed until they have been      preserved for ten years.  Such reproduction, when satisfactorily      identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original itself in      any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in      existence or not and an enlargement or facsimile of such reproduction      is likewise admissible in evidence if the original recording, copy,      or reproduction is in existence and available for inspection under      direction of court.  The introduction of a reproduced record,      enlargement or facsimile, does not preclude admission of the      original.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [S13, § 4623; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 11283; C46, 50, 54, 58,      62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 622.30] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         91 Acts, ch 83, §1         Referred to in § 452A.80