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2010 Georgia Code

TITLE 24 - EVIDENCE

CHAPTER 3 - HEARSAY
ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 24-3-17 - Admissibility of certified copies of records of Department of Public Safety or Department of Driver Services or comparable agencies in other states; admissibility of computer transmitted records

O.C.G.A. 24-3-17 (2010)
24-3-17. Admissibility of certified copies of records of Department of Public Safety or Department of Driver Services or comparable agencies in other states; admissibility of computer transmitted records


(a) A certified copy of any record of the Department of Public Safety or the Department of Driver Services or comparable agency in any other state is admissible in any judicial proceedings or administrative hearing in the same manner as the original of the record.

(b) Any court may receive and use as evidence in any case information otherwise admissible from the records of the Department of Public Safety or the Department of Driver Services obtained from any terminal lawfully connected to the Georgia Crime Information Center without the need for additional certification of those records.

(c) Any court may receive and use as evidence for the purpose of imposing a sentence in any criminal case information otherwise admissible from the records of the Department of Driver Services obtained from a request made in accordance with a contract with the Georgia Technology Authority for immediate on-line electronic furnishing of information.