2013 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 51 - Courts
Chapter 874 - Court Reporters
Section 51-74 - Use of shorthand writing machine or recording device.

(a) The record of proceedings in any court required to be made by an official court reporter, assistant court reporter, stenographer or assistant stenographer may in the first instance be made by shorthand, by shorthand writing machine, or by a mechanical or sound recording device approved by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

(b) Whenever the general statutes provide that a court reporter or stenographer attend a court, or be appointed to attend a court, to make a record of the proceedings therein, the court reporter or stenographer may be a person competent to make the record by shorthand, by a shorthand writing machine or by an approved mechanical or sound recording device.

(c) The term “shorthand notes”, “stenographic notes” or “official notes”, when used in the general statutes to mean the original record of court proceedings, shall include the record made by a shorthand writing machine or other approved mechanical or sound recording device.

(1953, S. 3136d; P.A. 82-248, S. 64.)

History: P.A. 82-248 made technical revision, rewording some provisions and dividing section into Subsecs. but made no substantive change.

See chapter 400l re licensing of shorthand reporters.

Subsec. (a):

Cited. 43 CS 246.

Subsec. (c):

Cited. 43 CS 246.