O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 15-9-46 (2019)
Validity of photostatic records
✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) Records of any kind kept by the judge of the probate court or by the probate court of the several counties made by either a photostatic or photographic process shall be valid and effective for all purposes; and the records or copies thereof may be used in the same manner and to the same extent as records kept by any former method of printing, typing, or handwriting the same.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this Code section, in all cases carried to the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals, the rules of such courts for the preparation of transcripts of records shall be complied with.
History
Ga. L. 1950, p. 414, § 4; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 15.