Connecticut General Statutes 51-63 – Official court reporter and court recording monitor charges for transcripts. Official and assistant stenographers of the Workers’ Compensation Commission charges for transcripts
(a)(1) In addition to a salary, an official court reporter and a court recording monitor shall be entitled to charge an individual, who is not a public official, three dollars for each transcript page which is ordered and transcribed from the original record as provided by law, provided such rate may only be charged once. Any subsequent charge for a transcript page previously produced for an individual who is not a public official shall be one dollar and seventy-five cents.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 51-63
- Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
- Public official: means any official of (A) the state, (B) any state agency, board or commission, or (C) a municipality of the state acting in an official capacity. See Connecticut General Statutes 51-60
- Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
- Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
- Transcript: means the official written record of a proceeding, or any part thereof, including, but not limited to, testimony and arguments of counsel, produced in the Superior, Appellate or Supreme Court, by an official court reporter, a court recording monitor or any other entity designated by the Chief Court Administrator. See Connecticut General Statutes 51-60
- Transcript page: means a page consisting of twenty-seven double-spaced lines on paper eight and one-half by eleven inches in size, if printed, with sixty spaces available per line, on paper or stored in an electronic medium that is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Connecticut General Statutes 51-60
(2) In addition to a salary, an official court reporter and a court recording monitor shall be entitled to charge any public official, other than a judicial officer or employee of the Judicial Branch, two dollars for each transcript page which is ordered and transcribed from the official record as provided by law, provided such rate may only be charged once. The charge to any public official, other than a judicial officer or employee of the Judicial Branch, shall be seventy-five cents for each transcript page previously produced, except (A) there shall be no charge to the state’s attorney for a transcript provided pursuant to subsection (d) of section 51-61, and (B) there shall be no charge to the court for a transcript provided pursuant to subsection (f) of section 51-61.
(b) The fee for a transcript of such record, when made for the court or for the state’s attorney when acting in the court’s or state’s attorney’s official capacity, and for one copy each to the plaintiff and the defendant, shall, upon the certificate of the presiding judge having so ordered such transcript, be paid as other court expenses and, in all other cases, by the party ordering the same, and such copies shall be furnished within a reasonable time.
(c) Official and assistant stenographers in the offices of the administrative law judges shall be entitled, in addition to the compensation otherwise provided for, to the same fees for preparing transcripts as are provided for official court reporters and court recording monitors in the Superior Court.