NMSA 34-6-20. Personnel; official court reporters; secretaries

34-6-20. Personnel; official court reporters; secretaries. A. Each district judge shall select an official court reporter to record the proceedings of his court as required. All notes, records and evidence taken by the reporter shall be deposited with the district court clerk of the county in which the proceeding is docketed. B. Each full-time official court reporter of the district court shall receive a salary fixed by the district court, exclusive of transcript fees, for court reporting, secretarial and other duties performed for the district court. Official court reporters employed on a part-time basis by the district court may be paid at a rate fixed by the district court not to exceed standard rates for such service in the area for all services required of them, exclusive of transcript fees. C. Official court reporters shall, upon request, furnish typewritten transcripts of testimony and proceedings recorded by them in any cause at a maximum charge of one dollar sixty-five cents ($1.65) a page for an original with three copies. A page of transcription consists of not less than twenty-five typewritten lines on a good grade of paper, eight and one-half inches by thirteen inches in size, prepared for binding at the top and having margins of not more than one and three-fourths inches at the left and one-half inch at the right. Type shall be pica size with ten letters to the inch. The supreme court may provide by rule for decreases in the maximum charge when transcripts are not furnished within time limits prescribed by the supreme court. In any matter in which the district court has granted free process to the party requesting a transcript, payment of the charges shall be made from funds appropriated to the district court. History: 1953 Comp., § 16-3-7, enacted by Laws 1968, ch. 69, § 21; 1969, ch. 45, § 1.