3.03.120 Admissibility of Public Records and Reports

(a) Entries in public or other official books or records, made in the course of official duty, by or under the direction of a public officer or board, or by another person in the performance of a duty established by law, are prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

(b) Certified copies of such entries shall be admissible in evidence. Whenever a copy of any such entry is certified for the purpose of evidence, the certificate must state in substance that the copy is a correct copy of the original or of a specified part thereof. The certification shall be made by the official who was responsible for the copy of the entry, record or document, or by his superior who has knowledge that it is a true copy.

(c) Every instrument in writing which is acknowledged or witnessed and duly recorded or duly filed and such record or a certified copy of such record, or a certified copy of such filed instrument duly certified by the proper custodian of the record or instrument, is admissible in evidence without further proof of its authenticity.

(d) A written certificate, signed by an officer having the custody of an official record or by his deputy, that after diligent search no record or entry of a specified matter is found to exist in the records of his office, is admissible as evidence that the records of his office contain no such record or entry.