25-3-501. Service of telephonic or telegraphic copy. (1) Any summons, writ, or order in any civil action or proceeding and all other papers requiring service may be transmitted by telegraph or telephone for such service in any place; and the telegraphic or telephonic copy of such writ, order, or paper so transmitted may be served or executed by the officer or person to whom it is sent for that purpose and returned by him, if any return be requisite, in the same manner and with the same force and effect in all respects as the original thereof might be delivered to him; and the officer or person serving or executing the same has the same authority and is subject to the same liabilities as if the copy were the original.
     (2) The original, when a writ or order, must also be filed in the court from which it was issued, and a certified copy thereof must be preserved in the telegraph or telephone office from which it is sent. In sending it, either the original or certified copy may be used by the operator for that purpose. Whenever any document to be sent by telegraph or telephone bears a seal, either private or official, it is not necessary for the operator, in sending the same, to telegraph or telephone a description of the seal or any words or device thereon, but the same may be expressed in the telegraphic or telephonic copy by the letters "L.S." or by the word "seal".

     History: En. Sec. 1837, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 7152, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9785, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 1017; re-en. Sec. 9785, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-8508.