(a) Copies of all official bonds, writings, papers, or documents, recorded or filed as records in any court, or public office, or lodged in the office of the Governor, Treasurer, Auditor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Adjutant General, or the State Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, shall be as competent evidence as the originals, when certified by the keeper of such records or writings under the seal of the keeper's office when there is such seal, or under the keeper's hand when there is no such seal, unless the court shall order the production of the original. Copies of the records of the board of county commissioners shall be evidence when certified by the clerk of the board under the clerk's hand and seal of the county.
(b) The provisions of this section shall apply to records stored on any form of permanent, computer-readable media, such as a CD-ROM, if the medium is not subject to erasure or alteration. Nonerasable, computer-readable storage media may be used for preservation duplicates, as defined in G.S. 132-8.2, or for the preservation of permanently valuable records as provided in G.S. 121-5(d). (1792, c. 368, s. 11, P.R.; R.C., c. 44, s. 8; 1868-9, c. 20, s. 21; 1871-2, c. 91; Code, ss. 715, 1342; Rev., s. 1616; C.S., s. 1779; 1961, c. 739; 1973, c. 476, s. 48; 1999-131, s. 3; 1999-456, s. 47(c); 2011-326, s. 13(a); 2015-241, s. 14.30(s).)
Notes of Decisions
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cases, 1968–2015 · leading case:
Matter of Bradley, 291 S.E.2d 800 (N.C. Ct. App. 1982).
Matter of Bradley, 291 S.E.2d 800 (N.C. Ct. App. 1982).
· cites it 4× “G.S. § 8-34. The record challenged in the present case was an authenticated copy of a Department of Correction document reclassifying respondent's status as a prisoner and disclosing that respondent had been removed from the work release program for having returned therefrom in…”
State v. Joyner, 243 S.E.2d 367 (N.C. 1978).
· cites it 2× “See G.S. 8-34; G.S. 130-66. It is still, however, the case that “while certified copies of records are admitted in evidence, the originals are not thereby made incompetent.”
Matter of Arthur, 231 S.E.2d 614 (N.C. 1977).
“G.S. 8-34 (Official Writings) ; G.S. 8-35 (Authenticated Copies of Public Records) ; G.”
Matter of Arthur, 218 S.E.2d 869 (N.C. Ct. App. 1975).
“1 (a) (Motor Vehicle Operators Blood Alcohol Content) ; G.S. 106-89 (Fertilizer Analysis).”
State v. McGee, 311 S.E.2d 383 (N.C. Ct. App. 1984).
“Defendant next contends that the court erred in failing to grant his motion to dismiss at the close of all the evidence.”
State v. Beamon, 163 S.E.2d 544 (N.C. Ct. App. 1968).
“The defendant assigns as error the admission of this commitment upon the grounds that it was not certified in accordance with G.S. 8-34. In State v. Stallings, 267 N.C.”
Snoke v. Snoke, 775 S.E.2d 925 (N.C. Ct. App. 2015).
“Furthermore, G.S. 8-34 provides that copies of ... documents, recorded or filed as records in any court" can be considered as competent evidence.”
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