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The official records and other documents, being enactments or regulations or decisions or rulings or proceedings or reports or other official acts, of the congress or any federal executive department or subdivision therein, or of any federal court or commission or board or agency or public institution, may be evidenced by the federal register or by a printed book or pamphlet or periodical purporting to be published by the U.S. Government Printing Office at Washington, D.C., by authority, which shall be received in all courts and proceedings of this state and by all officers of this state as prima facie evidence of the records, documents, enactments, regulations, decisions, rulings, proceedings, reports or other official acts of the departments, subdivisions, courts, commissions, boards, agencies or public institutions from which they purport to emanate, and the same may be read and referred to as such in any and all courts of this state.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 13, § 3713. Federal enactments, regulations, decisions, prima facie evidence - last updated January 01, 2023 | https://codes.findlaw.com/la/revised-statutes/la-rev-stat-tit-13-sect-3713/
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