§ 51-63 — Official court reporter and court recording monitor charges for transcripts. Official and assistant stenographers of the Workers' Compensation Commission charges for transcripts.

Connecticut § 51-63

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 51: Courts
• Ch. 874: Court Reporters

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(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 and sixty cents for each transcript page that 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 two dollars and ten cents. (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 and forty cents for each transcript page that 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 ninety 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.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 3607; 1957, P.A. 193; 1967, P.A. 450; 537; P.A. 74-261; P.A. 78-280, S. 2, 127; P.A. 79-376, S. 70; P.A. 81-390; P.A. 82-248, S. 61; 82-429, S. 1, 3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12, S. 44, 55; P.A. 93-142, S. 5, 8; P.A. 94-64, S. 1, 2; P.A. 04-184, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-4, S. 28; P.A. 19-64, S. 7; P.A. 21-18, S. 1; 21-104, S. 42; P.A. 22-26, S. 16; P.A. 24-72, S. 1.) History: 1967 acts changed compensation of assistant reporters from $28 for each day of attendance at court to such per diem rate as may be fixed by the judges and changed compensation for transcribed records from $0.20 for each folio and copy to $0.40 for each folio and $0.10 for each copy; P.A. 74-261 increased compensation from $0.40 to $0.50 per folio and from $0.10 to $0.16 per copy and added proviso retaining former rates as charges for state officials; P.A. 78-280 substituted “judicial district” for “county”; P.A. 79-376 substituted “workers' compensation” for “workmen's compensation”; P.A. 81-390 increased the fee for court transcripts from $0.50 to $0.70 for each folio and from $0.16 to $0.20 for each copy of each folio; P.A. 82-248 reworded section, divided section into Subsecs., deleted provision re employment of assistant reporters and reenacted such provisions as part of Sec. 51-61 and added language formerly in Sec. 51-64 re traveling expenses; P.A. 82-429 increased fee from $0.40 to $0.60 for each folio and $0.10 to $0.20 for each copy of each folio; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12 amended Subsec. (c) by creating a Subdiv. (1) and new Subdivs. (2) and (3) requiring court reporters to provide free copy of transcripts to the state's attorney, assistant state's attorney, deputy state's attorney or the court; P.A. 93-142 amended Subsec. (c) by increasing amount charged for each transcript page and added definition of “transcript page”, effective June 14, 1993; P.A. 94-64 amended Subsec. (c) by adding reference to adoption of procedures and to establishment and administration of system of fees for production of expedited transcripts, effective May 19, 1994; P.A. 04-184 amended Subsec. (c) by increasing fee for each transcript page from $1.75 to $3.00, adding provision re fee of $1.75 for each page for which a $3.00 charge already has been made and making a technical change, effective July 1, 2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-4 amended Subsec. (c)(1) to substitute charge of $2.00 for $1.50 for each transcript page and $0.75 for $0.50 for each page for which charge was already made, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2007; P.A. 19-64 deleted former Subsecs. (a) to (c) re salaries for and fees charged for transcript pages by official court reporters, assistant court reporters and monitors, added new Subsec. (a) re salary for and fees charged for transcript pages by official court reporter and court recording monitor, redesignated existing Subsecs. (d) and (e) as Subsecs. (b) and (c), amended redesignated Subsec. (c) by adding reference to court recording monitors, deleted former Subsecs. (f) and (g) re clerical assistance and traveling expenses provided to official court reporters, respectively, and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2019; pursuant to P.A. 21-18, “workers' compensation commissioners” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “administrative law judges” in Subsec. (c), effective October 1, 2021; P.A. 21-104 amended Subsec. (a)(2) by adding “, other than a judicial officer or employee of the Judicial Branch,”, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 22-26 amended Subsec. (a)(2) to add “other than a judicial officer or employee of the Judicial Branch” re the per page transcript charge to any public official, effective May 10, 2022; P.A. 24-72 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by increasing fee for transcript page from $3.00 to $3.60 and increasing fee for transcript page previously produced from $1.70 to $2.10 and amended Subsec. (a)(2) by increasing fee for transcript page ordered by public official from $2.00 to $2.40, increasing fee for transcript page previously produced from $0.75 to $0.90 and by making a technical change. Cited. 7 CA 286. Ethics board did not err in treating court reporters and Workers' Compensation Commission hearing reporters differently. 52 CS 304.