201 Pa. Code § 4006 - Employment and Duties of Court Reporting Personnel
(A) The president judge or his
or her designee shall select, appoint, and supervise court reporting personnel
for the district. The number of court reporting personnel in any district shall
be adequate to support the full and unrestricted operation of the
courts.
(B) The
president judge or his or her designee shall assign court reporting personnel
in a manner as to
(1) cover
all proceedings and timely produce all transcripts; and
(2) substantially equalize the
workload of recording testimony, and of transcript production and generating
fees.
(C)
All court reporting personnel are officers of the court with a duty to comply
with all court regulations and orders and to maintain the highest standards of
professional and ethical conduct.
(D) No court reporting personnel shall
work outside his or her official duties unless such work is permitted under the
Code of Conduct For Employees of the Unified Judicial System (see Section VI
(F)) and he or she is in substantial compliance with these rules regarding
timeliness of transcripts as determined by the president judge.
(E) All court reporters must
ensure that the court will have access and the ability to obtain the notes of
testimony and all other record proceedings of the court in the event of the
inability, unavailability, or unwillingness of the court reporter to do so
within the time frame established by these rules.
(1) contracting with an available
scopist capable of translating the court reporter's notes;
(2) generating court reporter
notes on a software program recognized by the court/district court
administrator;
(3)
providing the district court administrator with a current copy of the court
reporter's dictionary; and/or
(4) providing translated steno notes in
ASCII format.
(F) Court reporters, court recorders
and transcriptionists shall file a monthly report with the district court
administrator of all ordered or requested transcripts for matters on appeal, in
chronological order indicating the date of each order or request, the case name
and number, whether the transcript requires rapid completion (e.g., a
Children's Fast Track appeal), the approximate length of the record to be
transcribed, the status of the transcription, and the expected date of the
filing of the transcript. A court reporter, court recorder or transcriptionist
must coordinate with the district court administrator or his or her designee
whenever courtroom coverage must be arranged in order to timely deliver the
transcript.
(G) The
president judge shall determine the internal procedure in his or her judicial
district for tracking the timely fulfillment of all other requests and orders
for transcript of court proceedings in matters not under appeal. It is the duty
of each president judge or his or her designee to assure compliance with the
timely delivery of all transcripts as required by these rules.
(H) The district court
administrator shall prepare a summary statistical report of all cases under
appeal including the number of transcripts requested, delivered and pending, as
well as the age of all pending transcripts, which shall be forwarded to the
Administrative Office quarterly on forms designed by the Court
Administrator.
(I)
All court reporting personnel and county administrative personnel are required
to comply with all standing and special requests of the Administrative Office
for information, including information on transcript cost and fee payments and
data relative to transcript production, delivery, and delay.
Notes
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