(805 ILCS 410/3) (from Ch. 116, par. 61)
Sec. 3.
(a) If reproductions of original business records are made, the
preservation of such reproductions constitutes compliance with any laws of
this State requiring that business records be kept or preserved, subject to
the following conditions:
(1) The reproductions shall be made in the regular course of business or
pursuant to a general plan for making reproductions of records;
(2) Persons required to keep the records shall without expense to the
State make the reproductions available during usual business hours to State
officers or authorized employees entitled to inspect or examine the records
by running or projecting the reproductions for the inspection or
examination of such officers, or employees, and shall so run or project the
reproductions as to make it possible for such officers or employees to make
notes or copies thereof;
(3) Persons required to keep the records, upon the request of the State
department or agency charged with the administration of the Act requiring
the records to be kept, shall without expense to the State provide
enlargements of the reproductions in approximately original size of any and
all records to the possession of which the department or agency would be
entitled if reproductions have not been made.
(b) A reproduction constituting compliance with laws requiring the
keeping of records under subsection (a), or an enlargement of such
reproduction, when satisfactorily identified, is admissible in evidence, in
instances where the original record would be admissible, to prove the
contents of the original record in any judicial or administrative
proceeding concerned with the enforcement of the laws of this State.
(Source: Laws 1957, p. 123.)
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