The Board may refuse to issue or renew or may suspend or revoke any certificate or license if the certified court reporter, including a designated representative of a court reporting firm if he or she holds a certificate, in performing or attempting to perform or pretending to perform any act as a certified court reporter has:

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 656.250

  • Board: means the Certified Court Reporters" Board of Nevada. See Nevada Revised Statutes 656.030
  • Business entity: means any form of business organization, including, without limitation, a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, limited-liability company or limited-liability partnership. See Nevada Revised Statutes 656.030
  • Certificate: means a certified court reporter"s certificate issued under the provisions of this chapter. See Nevada Revised Statutes 656.030
  • Certified court reporter: means a natural person who is technically qualified and registered under this chapter to practice court reporting. See Nevada Revised Statutes 656.030
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
  • Court reporting firm: means a business entity that, for compensation, provides or arranges for the services of a certified court reporter or provides referral services for certified court reporters in this State. See Nevada Revised Statutes 656.030
  • License: means a license issued under the provisions of this chapter to conduct business as a court reporting firm. See Nevada Revised Statutes 656.030
  • person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
  • Practice of court reporting: means reporting, in this State, by the use of voice writing or any system of manual or mechanical shorthand writing:

    (a) Grand jury proceedings;

    (b) Court proceedings, with the exception of proceedings before a federal court;

    (c) Pretrial examinations, depositions, motions and related proceedings of like character; or

    (d) Proceedings of any agency if the final decision of the agency with reference thereto is subject to judicial review. See Nevada Revised Statutes 656.030

  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Stenographic notes: means :

    (a) The original manually or mechanically produced notes in shorthand or shorthand writing taken by a certified court reporter while in attendance at a proceeding to report the proceeding; or

    (b) The record produced by the use of voice writing by a certified court reporter while in attendance at a proceeding. See Nevada Revised Statutes 656.030

  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.

1.  Willfully failed to take full and accurate stenographic notes of any proceedings;

2.  Willfully altered any stenographic notes taken at any proceedings;

3.  Willfully failed accurately to transcribe verbatim any stenographic notes taken at any proceedings;

4.  Willfully altered a transcript of stenographic notes taken at any proceedings;

5.  Affixed his or her signature to any transcript of his or her stenographic notes or certified to the correctness of such a transcript unless the transcript was prepared by the certified court reporter or was prepared under the certified court reporter’s immediate supervision;

6.  Demonstrated unworthiness or incompetency to act as a certified court reporter in such a manner as to safeguard the interests of the public;

7.  Professionally associated with or loaned his or her name to another for the illegal practice by another of court reporting, or professionally associated with any natural person or business entity holding itself out in any manner contrary to the provisions of this chapter;

8.  Habitually been intemperate in the use of intoxicating liquor or controlled substances;

9.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 10, willfully violated any of the provisions of this chapter or the regulations adopted by the Board to enforce this chapter;

10.  Violated any regulation adopted by the Board relating to:

(a) Unprofessional conduct;

(b) Agreements for the provision of ongoing services as a certified court reporter or ongoing services which relate to the practice of court reporting;

(c) The avoidance of a conflict of interest; or

(d) The performance of the practice of court reporting in a uniform, fair and impartial manner and avoiding the appearance of impropriety;

11.  Failed within a reasonable time to provide information requested by the Board as the result of a formal or informal complaint to the Board, which would indicate a violation of this chapter; or

12.  Failed without excuse to transcribe stenographic notes of a proceeding and file or deliver to an ordering party a transcript of the stenographic notes:

(a) Within the time required by law or agreed to by verbal or written contract;

(b) Within a reasonable time required for filing the transcript; or

(c) Within a reasonable time required for delivery of the transcript.

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