2005 California Government Code Sections 70130-70134 Population of 140,000 to 147,000

70130.  (a) In a county with a population of over 205,000 and not
over 225,000 as determined by the 1970 federal decennial census,
within which there is located a facility of the Department of
Corrections of the State of California, each full-time official
reporter shall receive a salary recommended by the superior court and
approved by the board of supervisors.
   Any appointee to an official reporter position shall be
compensated at the first step and advance to each higher step upon
completion of each year of service.  Upon the recommendation of the
superior court and approval of the board of supervisors, official
reporters may be employed at or may be granted a special step
increase to any step within the salary range on the basis of
experience or qualifications.
   (b) The compensation for each official reporter pro tempore shall
be the equivalent of the daily wage of the third step in the salary
range for full-time official reporters for each day he actually is on
duty under order of the court.
   (c) In addition to the compensation provided in this article, each
full-time reporter of the superior court shall be entitled to, and
shall receive, the same vacation, sick leave, and similar privileges
and benefits as are now, or may hereafter be provided for the
employees of the County of Marin, including the right to participate
in any group, accident, health or life insurance plan adopted by the
board of supervisors of the county.
   (d) Until such time as the salaries of full-time official
reporters and official reporters pro tempore are approved by the
board of supervisors pursuant to subdivision (a), such reporters
shall receive the salaries in effect immediately prior to the
effective date of the amendments to this section enacted by the
Legislature at its 1975-76 Regular Session.
70130.5.  No further fee, charge or salary other than the salary or
compensation provided by Section 70130 shall be collected from, or
assessed against, any party to any proceeding for the services of an
official reporter in taking down in shorthand the testimony and other
proceedings in the trial or hearing of any matter as required by law
or by order of the court; but an official reporter shall be allowed,
and shall receive, unless waived by him, the fees allowed by law for
transcribing his shorthand notes of the testimony and proceedings
reported by him, and such fees for transcription shall be paid as
provided by Sections 69947 to 69953, inclusive, and by any other law
of this state pertinent to the case.
70131.  In criminal cases in which the court specifically so
directs, the fee for a transcript ordered by the court to be made
shall be paid out of the county treasury on the order of the court.
The court shall not order to be transcribed and paid for out of the
county treasury any matter or material except that reported by the
reporter pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure Section 269.  When the
court orders a daily transcript, necessitating the services of two
official reporters, the reporting fee for each of the reporters and
the transcript fee shall be proper charges against the county
treasury, and such daily transcript shall be pursuant to Code of
Civil Procedure Section 269.
70131.5.  Fees for transcription of testimony and proceedings in the
court shall be paid by the litigants to full-time official reporters
and official reporters pro tempore as otherwise provided by law.  In
all cases where by law the court may direct the payment of
transcription fees out of the county treasury, such fees shall, upon
order of the court, be paid from the general fund including fees for
transcription of testimony and proceedings in criminal cases as
provided in Sections 69947 to 69953, inclusive, which shall be paid
from the county treasury.
70132.  The official reporters of the court, if otherwise eligible,
shall be members of any retirement system maintained by the county
that includes attaches of the court.  For the purposes of such
retirement system, the salary or compensation provided for reporters
in this article shall be deemed their entire compensation, except
that where credit is claimed for service rendered prior to the
establishment of such salary or compensation, the actual compensation
paid to them by the county shall be the basis for contributions for
such prior service, and continuous employment of the court, prior to
membership in such retirement system, shall be considered as "prior
service" therein upon the payment by the reporters of the sums due,
if any, under the retirement system.
70132.5.  (a) The official reporter shall perform the duties
required of him by law.  When not actually engaged in the performance
of any other duty imposed on him by law, he shall render
stenographic or clerical assistance, or both, to the judge or judges
of the department to which he is assigned as such judge or judges may
direct.  This subdivision shall not apply to reporters who elect to
be paid on a per diem and fee basis.
   (b) The official reporter in each department shall be selected by,
and serve solely and directly under the authority and control of,
the judge thereof, and shall not be subject to the authority of any
county administrative office or personnel commission.
70133.  Nothing in any county ordinance or in any state law
disqualifying employees at any age from further employment, shall
affect any reporter employed on the effective date of this article,
or for a period of 10 years thereafter.
70134.  The official reporters of the court, in addition to
membership in any appropriate county retirement system, unless
otherwise specified in this article, shall be bound by the same
restrictions applicable to other county employees.  Such reporters
shall not use county equipment or county premises or county working
hours for the purpose of doing work not in the service of the county
or the court.