§ 10-202. Maryland Uniform Proof of Statutes Act

   (a) Publications covered. -- Printed books or pamphlets purporting on their face to be the session or other statutes of the United States, any of the United States or its territories, or of a foreign jurisdiction, and to have been printed and published by the authority of a state, territory, or foreign jurisdiction or proved to be commonly recognized in its courts, shall be received in the courts of the State as prima facie evidence of the statutes.

(b) Interpretation. -- This section shall be so interpreted and construed to effectuate its general purposes to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.

(c) Short title. -- This section may be cited as the Maryland Uniform Proof of Statutes Act.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 35, § 63-65; 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 2, § 1; 1974, ch. 691, § 8; 1990, ch. 6, § 2.