2012 New York Consolidated Laws
CVP - Civil Practice Law & Rules
Article 45 - (4501 - 4548) EVIDENCE
R4521 - Lack of record.


NY CPLR § R4521 (2012) What's This?
 
    Rule  4521.  Lack  of  record.  A  statement signed by an officer or a
  deputy of an officer having legal custody of specified official  records
  of  the  United States or of any state, territory or jurisdiction of the
  United States, or of any court thereof, or kept  in  any  public  office
  thereof,  that  he has made diligent search of the records and has found
  no record or entry of a specified nature, is prima facie  evidence  that
  the records contain no such record or entry, provided that the statement
  is  accompanied  by  a  certificate  that legal custody of the specified
  official records belongs to such person, which certificate shall be made
  by a person described in rule 4540.

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