(205 ILCS 620/2-12)
Sec. 2-12.
Reproductions of documents.
Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, if a corporate fiduciary possesses,
records, or creates any document, memorandum, writing, entry, representation,
or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence, event, or
agreement (including, without limitation, a trust agreement or amendment
thereto, but excluding in all events an original will or codicil thereto) and
in the regular course of business has caused any or all of the same to be
recorded, copied, or reproduced by photographic, photostatic, facsimile,
microfiche, optical, or electronic imaging, or any other electronic or
computer-generated process that accurately reproduces or forms a medium for so
reproducing the original, the original may be destroyed in the regular course
of business and such recording, copy, or reproduction shall be admissible in
evidence in the same manner as the original in any proceeding, whether the
original is in existence or not. This Section shall not be construed to
exclude from evidence any document or copy thereof that is otherwise admissible
under the rules of evidence.
(Source: P.A. 90-298, eff. 8-1-97; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)
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