2012 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 19 EVIDENCE
Chapter 18. Contents Of Writings, Recordings And Photographs
§19-18-5 (Rule 1005) Certified copy of official record--Other evidence.

19-18-5. (Rule 1005) Certified copy of official record--Other evidence. The contents of an official record, or of a document authorized to be recorded or filed and actually recorded or filed, including data compilations in any form, if otherwise admissible, may be proved by copy, certified as correct in accordance with § 19-17-5 or testified to be correct by a witness who has compared it with the original. If a copy which complies with the foregoing cannot be obtained by the exercise of reasonable diligence, then other evidence of the contents may be given.

Source: CCivP 1877, §§ 493, 494; CL 1887, §§ 5307, 5308; SL 1901, ch 2; RCCivP 1903, § 533; RC 1919, § 2724; SL 1921, ch 351; Supreme Court Rule 550, 1939; SDC 1939, §§ 36.0204, 36.0902, 36.1101, 36.1102; SL 1939, ch 138, § 13; SDC Supp 1960, §§ 36.0204, 36.0902, 36.1101, 36.1102, 55.15A13; SDCL, §§ 19-4-4, 19-4-7, 19-4-8, 19-4-10, 23-6-13; Supreme Court Rule 78-2, Rule 1005.