Official reports of capture or missing in action; evidence

Sec. 2. An official written report or record, or a duly certified copy of a record or report:

(1) that states that a person is:

(A) missing;

(B) missing in action;

(C) interned in a neutral country;

(D) beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy;

(E) dead; or

(F) alive; and

(2) that is made by any officer or employee of the United States authorized by the statute referred to in section 1 of this chapter or by any other law of the United States to make such a report or record;

shall be received in any court, office, or other place in Indiana as evidence that the person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, dead, or alive.

[Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-3-4-2.]

As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.33.