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Chapter 20.--COURTS


Article 9.--OFFICIAL REPORTERS FOR DISTRICT COURTS

     
20-917.   Official court reporter; assignment; transcripts; power to administer
oaths; reporters' expenses.

(a) The supreme court shall provide by
rule for the assignment of an official court reporter appointed in
any judicial district to duty in another judicial district.

     
(b)   The supreme court shall
regulate the making of the records of all court proceedings and shall
adopt rules governing the preparation and sale of trial transcripts.

     
(c)   An official court reporter shall have the power to administer
oaths in any court proceeding in the same manner and to the same extent
provided by law for the administering of oaths by district judges.

     
(d)   Official court reporters shall
be reimbursed for the actual and necessary expenses incurred in the
performance of their official duties, in the same manner and to the same
extent district judges are so reimbursed.

     
History:   L. 1976, ch. 146, § 37; L. 1978, ch. 108, § 12; Jan. 1, 1979.