California · Code of Civil Procedure - CCP

CCP §1953.01: Whenever in any action or special proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court of this State any record is lost, injured, or destroyed by reason of conflagration or other public calamity, any person in

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What this law says, in plain English

When court records are lost, injured, or destroyed by fire or public disaster, an interested person may petition the court for an order allowing a certified copy to replace the lost original.

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Whenever in any action or special proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court of this State any record is lost, injured, or destroyed by reason of conflagration or other public calamity, any person interested therein may apply by a duly verified petition in writing to the court for an order authorizing such defect to be supplied by a duly certified copy of the original, where such copy can be obtained.

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