Evidence of imprisonment · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 400.22 Evidence of imprisonment.
The certificate of the commissioner of correction or of the warden or other chief officer of any prison, or of the superintendent or other chief officer of any penitentiary under the seal of his office containing name of person, a statement of the court in which conviction was had, the date and term of sentence, length of time imprisoned, and date of discharge from prison or penitentiary, shall be prima facie evidence of the imprisonment and discharge of any person under the conviction stated and set forth in such certificate for the purposes of any proceeding under section 400.20.
For a proceeding under § 400.20, a prison official’s sealed certificate stating the person’s name, convicting court, sentence date and term, time imprisoned, and discharge date is prima facie evidence of that person’s imprisonment and discharge under the stated conviction. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Court Clerk in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Clerk: Criminal Procedure Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Court Officer: Criminal Procedure Law; Volume 2 — Your Career: Criminal Procedure in Plain English.