§ 8-5-1. Supreme court secretary and assistant. The supreme court may appoint a secretary and an assistant secretary, each of whom shall hold office during its pleasure and shall perform such duties as may be required by the court. History of Section.C.P.A. 1905, § 69; G.L. 1909, ch. 278, § 1; P.L. 1920, ch. 1894, […]
§ 8-5-2. Superior court secretary and assistants. The justices of the superior court, or a majority of them, may appoint a secretary of the court and five (5) assistant secretaries, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the court and shall perform such duties as may be required by the court. History of Section.P.L. […]
§ 8-5-3. Appointment of superior court reporters and electronic court reporters. (a) The justices of the superior court, or a majority of them, shall appoint competent shorthand writers or stenotypists, known as court reporters, for regular service in the superior court, and one or more such persons for occasional service therein in the absence of […]
§ 8-5-4. Court reporters and electronic court reporters — Supplies and preservation of notes and other materials. All books, papers, recording media, and supplies necessary for use by court reporters and electronic court reporters shall be furnished by the state, and the notebooks used and notes and recordings taken by them shall be the property […]
§ 8-5-4.1. Freelance court reporters and electronic court reporters. (a) All stenographic notes of freelance court reporters or recordings and notes of freelance electronic court reporters pertaining to all proceedings which have been completely transcribed may be destroyed after seven (7) years, unless otherwise ordered by any court. (b) Stenographic notes of freelance court reporters […]
§ 8-5-5. Reports of superior, family and district court and traffic tribunal. Court reporters shall report stenographically or electronic court reporters or similar recording personnel shall report electronically the proceedings in the trial of every action or proceeding, civil or criminal, in the superior court, family court, district court and traffic tribunal. Each court reporter […]
§ 8-5-6. Appointing court reporter and electronic court reporter for grand jury proceedings. Whenever the attorney-general shall make request in writing to the presiding justice of the superior court, he or she shall designate a court reporter or electronic court reporter or similar recording personnel to attend such sittings of any grand jury as the […]
§ 8-5-7. Appropriations for court reporters and electronic court reporters. The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum as it may deem necessary to compensate the stenographers, court reporters, and electronic court reporters and similar recording personnel for their services; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her order […]
§ 8-5-8. Sign language interpreters/transliterators and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) providers for deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind persons. (a) In all civil and criminal cases, in workers’ compensation, district, family, and superior court proceedings, mental health court competency hearings, state traffic tribunals, and in any case in any municipal court, including, but not […]
§ 8-5-8.1. Waiver of interpreter/transliterator and CART provider. (a) A non-English speaking person may at any point in the proceeding waive the right to the services of an interpreter/transliterator or a CART provider, but only when: (1) The waiver is approved by the appointing authority after explaining on the record to the non-English speaking person […]
§ 8-5-8.2. Privileged communications. In the trial of every cause, both civil and criminal, no interpreter/transliterator for the deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind shall be competent to testify concerning any statement made to him or her in connection with the interpreter’s or transliterator’s interpretation or transliteration for the deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind, […]
§ 8-5-8.3. Visual recording of testimony. At the request of any party to the proceeding or the hearing or on the appointing authority’s initiative, the appointing authority may order that the testimony of the person who is deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind and the interpretation/transliteration of the proceeding by the qualified interpreter/transliterator be visually […]
§ 8-5-9. Right to stenographic record. (a) Where not already provided by law, any party to any legal action shall have the right to have a stenographer present provided that the party bears the expense of the stenographer, his or her transcription, and any other expenses incidental thereto. For purposes of this section the term […]
