Admissibility of Business Entries

and Photographic Copies: Availability of Declarant Immaterial ‘‘(a) [Business records admissible.] Any writ- ing or record, whether in the form of an entry in a book or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, shall be admissible as evidence of the act, transaction, occurrence or event, if the trial judge finds that it was made in the regular course of any business, and that it was the regular course of the business to make the writing or record at the time of the act, transaction, occurrence or event or within a reasonable time thereafter. ‘‘(b) [Witness need not be available.] The writing or record shall not be rendered inadmissi- ble by (1) a party’s failure to produce as witnesses the person or persons who made the writing or record, or who have personal knowledge of the act, transaction, occurrence or event recorded or (2) the party’s failure to show that such persons are unavailable as witnesses. Either of such facts and all other circumstances of the making of the writing or record, including lack of personal knowl- edge by the entrant or maker, may be shown to affect the weight of the evidence, but not to affect its admissibility. ‘‘(c) [Reproductions admissible.] Except as provided in the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in [General Statutes §] 1-200, if any per- son in the regular course of business has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, and in the regu- lar course of business has caused any or all of them to be recorded, copied or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business unless its preservation is otherwise required by statute. The reproduction, when satisfactorily 37