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Fla. Stat. § 90.955 (2025)

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90.955 Public records.
(1) The contents of an official record or of a document authorized to be recorded or filed, and actually recorded or filed, with a governmental agency, either federal, state, county, or municipal, in a place where official records or documents are ordinarily filed, including data compilations in any form, may be proved by a copy authenticated as provided in s. 90.902, if otherwise admissible.
(2) If a party cannot obtain, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, a copy that complies with subsection (1), other evidence of the contents is admissible.
History.s. 1, ch. 76-237; s. 1, ch. 77-77; s. 22, ch. 78-361; s. 1, ch. 78-379.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 2016–2017 · leading case: Dolan v. State, 187 So. 3d 262 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016).
Dolan v. State, 187 So. 3d 262 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016). · cites it 2× “See § 90.955, Fla. Stat. (2014) (relating to the admission of public records).”
Black Point Assets, Inc. v. Fed. Nat'l Mortg. Ass'n, 220 So. 3d 566 (2017). “See § 90.955, Fla. Stat. (2014); see also §§ 695.”
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