PART 4. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 1855-2107›TITLE 2. OF THE KINDS AND DEGREES OF EVIDENCE 1878-1974›CHAPTER 3. Writings 1895-1953.13›ARTICLE 4. Records Destroyed in Fire or Calamity 1953-1953.06
§ 1953.03
California Code of Civil Procedure · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California
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, and a certified copy of the original cannot be supplied, any person interested therein may make written application to the court, verified by affidavit, showing such loss, injury, or destruction, and that a certified copy of the record cannot be obtained by the person making the application, and that such loss, injury, or destruction occurred by conflagration, or other calamity, without the fault or neglect of the person making the application, and that such loss, injury, or destruction, unless supplied or remedied may result in damage to the person making the application. Thereupon the court shall cause notice of the application to be given pursuant to Sections 1010 to 1020, inclusive, of this code.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 52.)
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