Colo. R. Evid. 1005 (2026)

The contents of an official record, or of a document authorized to be recorded, or filed and actually recorded or filed, including data compilations in any form, if otherwise admissible, may be proved by copy, certified as correct in accordance with Rule 902 or testified to be correct by a witness who has compared it with the original. If a copy which complies with the foregoing cannot be obtained by the exercise of reasonable diligence, then other evidence of the contents may be given.

(Federal Rule Identical.)

COMMITTEE COMMENT

This provision is in lieu of Rule 43(g)(3) of tion that Rule 902 would be amended to provide the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure. The for certification in accordance with Colorado Committee does not recommend any changes in statute. the language, but this is based upon the assump-