---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 5704"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "5704"
heading: "Transcript of trial records"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/5704"
units:
  - "Part IV — General Administrative Provisions"
  - "Chapter 57 — Records and Investigations"
  - "Subchapter I — Records"
---

# §5704. Transcript of trial records


The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may purchase transcripts of the record, including all evidence, of trial of litigated cases.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1237, § 3304; renumbered § 5704, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238; Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404, 405.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 3304 of this title as this section.

Pub. L. 102–83 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator”.