Evidentiary effect of certified copy of filed document or secretary’s certificate.

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(2) The following documents and certificates must be received in all courts, public offices and official bodies of this state as prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the documents or certificates, unless a greater evidentiary effect is provided in ORS 65.027 and 65.051 or elsewhere in this chapter or the document was thereafter corrected or withdrawn from the files of the Secretary of State:

(a) All facts stated in certificates the Secretary of State issues with respect to the Secretary of State’s business registry functions including a certificate of compliance or noncompliance of a document with filing requirements or other provisions of law administered by the Secretary of State, or a certificate as to the existence or nonexistence of facts that would appear from presence or absence of documents in the files of the Secretary of State; and

(b) All facts stated in documents certified as filed by the Secretary of State, but only to the extent the specific items were required to be included in the document by this chapter or ORS chapter 61 (1987 Replacement Part). [1989 c.1010 §10; 2019 c.174 §12]


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