§1473.  Department of Public Safety to certify record to court

The Department of Public Safety shall certify the conviction record as maintained in its office of any person whose record brings him within the definition of a habitual offender, as defined above, and such abstract shall be competent evidence that the person named therein was duly convicted by the court wherein such conviction or holding was made by each offense shown by such abstract.

Added by Acts 1972, No. 697, §1.  Amended by Acts 1982, No. 555, §1.