Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

In proceedings under this code
the rules of evidence in courts of general jurisdiction including any relating
to simultaneous deaths, are applicable unless specifically displaced by this
code. In addition, the following rules relating to determination of death and
status are applicable:
(a) A certified or authenticated copy of a death certificate purporting
to be issued by an official or agency of the place where the death purportedly
occurred is prima facie proof of the fact, place, date and time of death and
the identity of the decedent;
(b) A certified or authenticated copy of any record or report of a
governmental agency, domestic or foreign, that a person is missing, detained,
dead, or alive is prima facie evidence of the status and of the dates,
circumstances and places disclosed by the record or report;
(c) A person who is absent for a continuous period of five (5) years,
during which he has not been heard from, and whose absence is not
satisfactorily explained after diligent search or inquiry is presumed to be
dead. His death is presumed to have occurred at the end of the period unless
there is sufficient evidence for determining that death occurred earlier.

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