(a) When a court accepts an electronic document for filing, the electronic document is the official court record.(b) If a court digitizes, records, scans, or otherwise reproduces a document that is filed in paper into an electronic record, document, or image, the electronic record, document or image is the official court record. The court may then destroy the paper document unless that document is required to be preserved by law or court order.
Mo. R. Civ. P. 103.03
Adopted January 27, 2011; effective Sept. 1, 2011.