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Texas Finance Code - Section 186.225. Records Admitted

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§ 186.225. RECORDS ADMITTED.  (a) A record of a state 
trust company in liquidation obtained by the receiver and held in 
the course of the receivership proceeding or a certified copy of the 
record under the official seal of the receiver is admissible in 
evidence in all cases without proof of correctness or other proof, 
except the certificate of the receiver that the record was received 
from the custody of the state trust company or found among its 
effects.
	(b)  The receiver may certify the correctness of a record of 
the receiver's office, including a record described by Subsection 
(a), and may certify any fact contained in the record.  The record 
is admissible in evidence in all cases in which the original would 
be evidence.
	(c)  The original record or a certified copy of the record is 
prima facie evidence of the facts it contains.
	(d)  A copy of an original record or another record that is 
maintained on a medium approved by the records management division 
of the Texas State Library, within the scope of this section, and 
produced by the receiver or the receiver's authorized 
representative under this section:
		(1)  has the same effect as the original record;  and                         
		(2)  may be used the same as the original record in a 
judicial or administrative proceeding in this state.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, § 7.16(a), eff. Sept. 1, 
1999.    

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