(A) Generally. There is created the position of City Court reporter. The City Court reporter shall be appointed by the City Judge if the Common Council first fixes a salary and appropriates funds therefor, subject to approval by resolution of at least two-thirds of the members-elect of the Common Council. He or she shall serve at the pleasure of the City Judge and shall be under his or her general jurisdiction.
(Prior Code, § 36.080)
(B) Compensation. The City Court reporter shall receive the annual salary provided in the annual budget.
(Prior Code, § 36.081)
(C) Qualifications. The person appointed as City Court reporter shall be highly qualified and capable of transcribing and taking down, in shorthand or stenotype, the evidence given in a cause and shall perform other kindred functions of a competent court reporter.
(Prior Code, § 36.082)
(D) Duties.
(1) Whenever requested by the Judge, the City Court reporter shall be present in Court, shall take down in shorthand or stenotype the oral evidence given in all causes, including both questions and answers, shall note all rulings of the Judge in respect to the admission or rejection of evidence and the objections thereto, and shall write out the instructions of the Court in jury trials.
(2) When requested by resolution of the Common Council or the Board of Public Works and Safety, the City Court reporter shall report special matters of the bodies.
(Prior Code, § 36.083)
(E) Administering oaths. Unless otherwise provided by law, the City Court reporter is authorized and empowered to administer oaths generally and to take and certify affidavits, examinations, and depositions. In the event the acts are not permitted by law, the City Court reporter shall, before performing any acts or duties, obtain a commission as a notary public.
(Prior Code, § 36.084)
(F) Furnishing transcripts.
(1) Whenever, in any cause, the City Court reporter shall be requested to furnish either party a transcript of all or any part of the proceedings required by him or her to be taken, including all documentary evidence, it shall be his or her duty to furnish the same in typewriting as soon after being requested to do so as practicable, and he or she shall certify the same and state whether the transcript contains all or part of the evidence given.
(2) The City Court reporter may require payment for transcript requested by either party to a cause or may require satisfactory security before he or she commences the preparation of the transcript.
(3) The City Court reporter may charge as fees an amount as set by the city from time to time per folio of 100 words, for making and furnishing transcripts, to be paid by the party requiring the transcript. The reporter shall not charge in excess of the fees herein permitted, under penalty of immediate removal from his or her position and under further penalties provided for violations of this chapter.
(4) The Department of Law shall not be required to pay the fees for the preparation of a transcript in any cause in which the city shall be interested and in which the City Court reporter shall have taken down the evidence, nor shall any charge be made for transcripts for the Board of Public Works and Safety or the Common Council.
(5) Any indigent person desiring to appeal to the Circuit or Superior Court from a decision of the City Court or the Judge thereof, who upon filing an affidavit setting forth facts showing his or her inability to pay for or to secure the payment of the transcript of evidence taken in shorthand, may be provided with a transcript upon written order of the Judge to the reporter.
(Prior Code, § 36.085)