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as provided for in any applicable official policy or procedure of
the Bureau of Warden Service.

 
SUBCHAPTER 2

 
EVIDENCE

 
§10501.__Admissibility of department records and prima

 
facie evidence

 
1.__Certificate; admissible evidence.__A certificate, signed
by the commissioner or the commissioner's designee, stating what
the records of the department show on any given matter is
admissible in evidence in all courts of this State to prove what
the records of the department are on that matter.__Upon the
testimony of a law enforcement officer that the certificate and
records were obtained by that officer from the department, the
court shall admit that certificate and those records as evidence
without any further foundation or testimony.

 
2.__Certificate prima facie evidence person not holder of
license, permit, registration or certificate of number.__A
certificate, signed by the commissioner or the commissioner's
designee, stating that the records of the department do not show
that a particular person on a stated date held a license, permit,
registration or certificate of number issued under this Part is
admissible in evidence in all courts of this State and is prima
facie evidence that the particular person named in the
certificate did not hold a license, permit, registration or
certificate of number as specified in the certificate on the date
specified in the certificate.

 
3.__Certificate prima facie evidence of license, permit,
registration or certificate of number revocation.__A certificate,
signed by the commissioner or the commissioner's designee,
stating that the records of the department show that a particular
person's license, permit, registration or certificate of number
issued under this Part was revoked or suspended on a particular
stated date is admissible in evidence in all courts of this State
and is prima facie evidence that the particular person's license,
permit, registration or certificate of number as specified in the
certificate was revoked or suspended on the date stated.

 
4.__Use of snowmobile accident reports.__Accident reports made
by investigating officers are for the purpose of statistical
analysis and accident prevention and are not admissible in
evidence in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of an
accident, but any investigating agency may disclose, upon the


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