§ 10-102. Maryland Uniform Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records as Evidence Act

   (a) In general. -- If a business, institution, member of a profession or calling, or a department or agency of government, in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded a memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation, or a combination of them, of an act, transaction, occurrence, or event, and in the regular course of business has caused any or all of them to be recorded, copied, or reproduced by a photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, optical imaging, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business unless its preservation is required by law. The reproduction, when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original itself in a judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in existence or not and an enlargement or facsimile of the reproduction is likewise admissible in evidence if the original reproduction is in existence and available for inspection under direction of the court. The introduction of a reproduced record, enlargement, or facsimile does not preclude admission of the original.

(b) Uniformity of interpretation. -- This section shall be interpreted and construed to effectuate its general purpose of making uniform the law of those states which enact it.

(c) Short title. -- This section may be cited as the Maryland Uniform Photographic Copies of Business and Public Records as Evidence Act.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 35, § 60; 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 2, § 1; 1974, ch. 691, § 8; 1992, ch. 5.