# Courts and Judicial Proceedings (GCJ)

## Title 10. Evidence

### Subtitle 2. Public Statutes, Office Copies, and Official Certificate

#### Section 10-209

An official written report or record or duly certified copy of an official written report or record that an individual is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or is beleaguered, besieged or captured by an enemy or is dead or is alive, made by any of the persons referred to in Sec. 10-208 of this subtitle shall be received in any court, office, or other place in the State as evidence of the facts stated in the report or record.

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Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)