Section 10-202 - Maryland Uniform Proof of Statutes Act. - Maryland Statutes

§ 10-202. Maryland Uniform Proof of Statutes Act.
 

(a)  Publications covered.- Printed books or pamphlets purporting on their face to be the session or other statutes of the United States, any of the United States or its territories, or of a foreign jurisdiction, and to have been printed and published by the authority of a state, territory, or foreign jurisdiction or proved to be commonly recognized in its courts, shall be received in the courts of the State as prima facie evidence of the statutes. 

(b)  Interpretation.- This section shall be so interpreted and construed to effectuate its general purposes to make uniform the law of those states which enact it. 

(c)  Short title.- This section may be cited as the Maryland Uniform Proof of Statutes Act. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 35, §§ 63-65; 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 2, § 1; 1974, ch. 691, § 8; 1990, ch. 6, § 2.]