Section 25 Business Records

• Library: Administrative Law 2011

(10) Any writing or record, whether in the form of an entry in a book or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record of an act, transaction, occurrence or event, shall be admissible as evidence of the act, transaction, occurrence or event, if it shall appear that it was made in the regular course of any business, and that it was the regular course of such business to make such memorandum or record at the time of such act, transaction, occurrence, or event or within a reasonable time thereafter. All other circumstances of the making of such writing or record, including lack of personal knowledge by the entrant or maker, may be shown to affect the weight of such evidence, but such showing shall not affect its admissibility. The term “business” shall include business, profession, occupation and calling of every kind.

Section 536.070(10), RSMo 2000.

Section 536.070(10) establishes a “business record” hearsay exception for administrative proceedings. Section 536.070(10) is a more relaxed standard than the one set by The Uniform Business Records...