31-09 Public Documents, Records, and Writings
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<![CDATA[CHAPTER 31-09PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, RECORDS, AND WRITINGS31-09-01.Statutes, codes, decisions, when admissible as evidence of laws offoreign jurisdictions. Books purporting to be printed or published under the authority of any<br>other state, territory, or foreign country and to contain the statutes, codes, or other written law of<br>such state, territory, or country, or proved to be admitted commonly in the tribunals of such state,<br>territory, or country as evidence of the written law thereof, are admissible in this state as<br>evidence of such law. The unwritten or common law of any other state, territory, or country may<br>be proved as a fact by parol evidence and the books of reports of cases adjudged in the courts of<br>any such state, territory, or country also may be admitted as presumptive evidence of such law.31-09-01.1. Reciprocal enforcement of tax statutes. The courts of this state shallrecognize and enforce statutes concerning taxation constitutionally imposed by other states that<br>extend like comity.31-09-02. When copies of records and proceedings of federal, state, and territorialcourts admissible in evidence. Copies of the records and judicial proceedings of any court of<br>the United States, or of any state or territory of the United States, shall be admissible as<br>evidence in this state when attested by the clerk with the seal of the court annexed, if there is a<br>seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate that the<br>attestation is in due form, and the said records and judicial proceedings so authenticated shall<br>have such faith and credit given to them in every court within this state as they have by law or<br>usage in the courts of the United States or of the state or territory from which they are taken.31-09-03. Stenographic report or transcript as evidence. Whenever the testimony ofa witness at a trial or hearing which was reported stenographically or by an electronic court<br>reporting system is admissible in evidence at a trial, it may be proved by the transcript thereof<br>duly certified by the person who reported or transcribed the testimony.31-09-04.How judicial record of foreign country proved.A judicial record of aforeign country may be proved by the attestation of the clerk with the seal of the court annexed, if<br>there is a clerk and seal, or of the legal keeper of the record, with the seal of office annexed, if<br>there is a seal, together with the certificate of the chief judge or presiding magistrate that the<br>person making the attestation is the clerk of the court, or the legal keeper of the record, and in<br>either case, that the signature of such person is genuine and that the attestation is in due form.<br>The signature of the chief judge or presiding magistrate must be authenticated by the certificate<br>of the minister, ambassador, or a consul, vice consul, or consular agent of the United States in<br>such foreign country.31-09-05. Certified transcript of judge's record admissible in courts of county. Atranscript of the docket record of a county judge in an action or proceeding, when certified by the<br>judge or the judge's successor in office, shall be evidence to prove the facts contained in that<br>transcript in any action or other proceeding in the county wherein the record was made.31-09-06. Certified transcript of county judge's record admissible in courts of othercounties. A transcript of the docket record of a county judge in an action or proceeding, when<br>certified by the judge or the judge's successor in office, may be read in evidence in another<br>county if there is attached thereto a certificate of the clerk of the district court of the county in<br>which such record was made, under the seal of the court, to the effect that the person certifying<br>such transcript was at the date thereof a county judge of the county, and in addition, if such<br>docket record was made by another, that such other at the time of the making of the same was a<br>county judge of the county.31-09-07. Clerk of court - Certificate to official acts of judge. Repealed by S.L. 1991,ch. 326, </p>
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