Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 45.012. Electronically Created Records
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Art. 45.012. ELECTRONICALLY CREATED RECORDS. (a)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a document that is
issued or maintained by a justice or municipal court or a notice or
a citation issued by a law enforcement officer may be created by
electronic means, including optical imaging, optical disk, digital
imaging, or other electronic reproduction technique that does not
permit changes, additions, or deletions to the originally created
document.
(b) The court may use electronic means to:
(1) produce a document required by law to be written;
(2) record an instrument, paper, or notice that is permitted
or required by law to be recorded or filed; or
(3) maintain a docket.
(c) The court shall maintain original documents as provided
by law.
(d) An electronically recorded judgment has the same force
and effect as a written signed judgment.
(e) A record created by electronic means is an original
record or a certification of the original record.
(f) A printed copy of an optical image of the original
record printed from an optical disk system is an accurate copy of
the original record.
(g) A justice or municipal court shall have a court seal,
the impression of which must be attached to all papers issued out of
the court except subpoenas, and which must be used to authenticate
the official acts of the clerk and of the recorder. A court seal may
be created by electronic means, including optical imaging, optical
disk, or other electronic reproduction technique that does not
permit changes, additions, or deletions to an original document
created by the same type of system.
(h) A statutory requirement that a document contain the
signature of any person, including a judge, clerk of the court, or
defendant, is satisfied if the document contains that signature as
captured on an electronic device.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 735, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Subsec. (a) amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 701, Sec. 2, eff.
Aug. 30, 1999; Subsec. (f) added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 701,
Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 30, 1999. Renumbered from Vernon's Ann.C.C.P.
art. 45.021 and amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1545, Sec. 9,
eff. Sept. 1, 1999; Subsec. (h) relettered from subsec. (f) by Acts
2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420, Sec. 21.001(12), eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Article: 44.45 44.46 44.47 45.001 45.002 45.003 45.011 45.012 45.013 45.014 45.015 45.016 45.017 45.018 45.019
Last modified: August 11, 2007
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