32-1-492. Reproduction of bank records -- admissibility in evidence. (1) Banks are hereby authorized to make, at any time, photographic or photostatic copies or microfilm reproductions of any records or documents, including photographic enlargements and prints of microfilms, and to preserve, store, use, and employ the same in carrying on business.
     (2) In any action or proceedings in which any bank records may be called in question or be demanded of any bank or any officer or employee thereof, a showing that such records have been destroyed in the regular course of business shall be a sufficient excuse for the failure to produce them.
     (3) Upon such showing, secondary evidence of the form, text, and contents of the original records, including photostatic, photographic, or microfilm reproductions thereof (and photographic enlargements and prints of microfilm reproductions), when made in the regular course of business, shall be admissible in evidence in any court of competent jurisdiction or in any administrative proceeding.
     (4) Any photostatic, photographic, or microfilm reproductions (including enlargements of the latter) made in the regular course of business of any original files, records, books, cards, tickets, deposit slips, or memoranda which were in existence on July 1, 1951, shall be admissible in evidence in proof of the form, text, and content of any said originals which may be destroyed in the regular course of business after July 1, 1951.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 77, L. 1951; R.C.M. 1947, 5-1051.