Section 34-9-44

Records to be kept by secretary-treasurer; copies and certificates as evidence.

The secretary-treasurer of the board shall keep a registry in which shall be entered the names of all persons to whom license certificates have been granted under this chapter, the numbers of such license certificates, the dates of granting the same and other matters of records, and he shall keep a true and correct copy of the minutes of all board meetings, and the book so provided and kept shall be the official book of records. A photostatic copy of said records or a copy of said records certified by the secretary-treasurer and under the seal of the board shall be admitted in any of the courts of this state as prima facie evidence of the facts contained in said records and in lieu of the original thereof. A certificate under the hand of the secretary-treasurer and the seal of the board that there is not entered in such record books the name and number of and date of granting such license certificate to a person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be prima facie evidence of the facts contained therein. Such certificates shall be admitted in any of the courts of this state in lieu of the records of the board. The original books, records and papers of the board shall be kept at the office of the secretary-treasurer of the board, which office shall be at such place as may be designated by the board.

(Acts 1959, No. 100, p. 569, §6; Acts 1965, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 25, p. 232, §1.)