Section 51-61 - Court reporter and court recording monitor to be sworn. Duties. Requests and payment for transcripts(a) Each official court reporter, before entering upon the duties of the office, shall be sworn to faithfully perform such duties and shall then be an officer of the court. Each official court reporter may attend court proceedings and make accurate records of all proceedings in the court, except sessions of small claims.(b) The Judicial Branch shall employ court recording monitors. Each court recording monitor, before entering upon the duties of the office, shall be sworn to faithfully perform such duties.(c) Each official court reporter and court recording monitor shall, when requested, furnish to the court, to the state's attorney, to any party of record and to any other person, within a reasonable time, a transcript as may be desired, except that, if the proceedings were closed to the public, such official court reporter or court recording monitor shall not furnish such transcript to such other person unless the court in its discretion determines that such disclosure is appropriate.(d) Each official court reporter and court recording monitor shall inform the state's attorney whenever a transcript has been requested by a party to a case in which the state's attorney has an appearance. If such request is made by a party, or by a party represented by counsel other than a public defender, the state's attorney shall, upon request, receive from such official court reporter or court recording monitor a copy of the transcript at no cost, as provided in subsection (a) of section 51-63.(e) If a transcript has been requested by the state's attorney or a public defender in a matter in which each is a party to the case, the official court reporter or the court recording monitor shall inform the party that has not made the original request that the request has been made. If the nonrequesting party requests a copy of the transcript, prior to its delivery to the requesting party, the cost of such transcript shall be shared by the parties. The official court reporter or the court recording monitor shall provide the transcript in a form that may be photocopied, to either the state's attorney or the public defender. If a request for a transcript is received by the official court reporter or court recording monitor subsequent to delivery of the transcript, the requesting party in this instance shall be responsible for payment of the full copy rate of such transcript as provided in subsection (a) of section 51-63.(f) Each official court reporter and court recording monitor shall inform the court whenever a transcript of proceedings has been requested by the state's attorney or any party of record pursuant to subsection (c) of this section. If such transcript has been requested, the court, upon request, shall receive from such official court reporter or court recording monitor a transcript at no cost as provided in subsection (a) of section 51-63.(g) Whenever the court deems it necessary, it may order a transcript to be filed with the clerk of the trial court.(1949 Rev., S. 7729; 1953, S. 3135d; P.A. 76-436, S. 74, 681; P.A. 78-280, S. 79, 127; P.A. 82-248, S. 59; P.A. 84-23; P.A. 88-31; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-12, S. 43, 55; P.A. 93-142, S. 6, 8; P.A. 98-81, S. 4.)
Amended by P.A. 19-0064,S. 5 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2019 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2019. Trial court may decline to stop a witness to enable prisoner's counsel to take notes of the testimony. 47 C. 534. Brief absence of stenographer does not make intervening proceedings void or erroneous. 71 C. 554. Notes may be read, or transcript submitted, to jury. 82 C. 66. If court concludes that transcript as certified by stenographer is incorrect, it has duty to correct it. 128 C. 289. Cited. 165 C. 152; 190 C. 219; 193 C. 439; 194 C. 233; 195 C. 496; 208 C. 156; 237 C. 339. Cited. 36 Conn.Supp. 9; 42 CS 10; 43 Conn.Supp. 246. Subsec. (a): Cited. 193 C. 48; 199 C. 207; 216 C. 604; 231 C. 43. Cited. 3 CA 148; 21 CA 235. Constitutional right to have voir dire proceedings recorded not established in Connecticut. 26 CA 125. Cited. 46 CA 269.