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Effective Jan 1, 1999Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 100, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1999.
(a) The content of a writing may be proved by otherwise admissible secondary evidence. The court shall exclude secondary evidence of the content of writing if the court determines either of the following:
- (1) A genuine dispute exists concerning material terms of the writing and justice requires the exclusion.
- (2) Admission of the secondary evidence would be unfair.
- (b) Nothing in this section makes admissible oral testimony to prove the content of a writing if the testimony is inadmissible under Section 1523 (oral testimony of the content of a writing).
- (c) Nothing in this section excuses compliance with Section 1401 (authentication).
- (d) This section shall be known as the “Secondary Evidence Rule.”