As Amended
SEC. 53-1-19. Rules of procedure before board; shorthand reporter; original transcript of testimony.
[This section was reenacted without change by Laws, 1991, ch. 340, Sec. 10, effective from and after passage (approved March 11, 1991). Since the language of the section as it appears in the parent volume is unaffected by the reenactment, it is not reprinted in this supplement as directed by Sec. 30 of ch. 340.] The board shall prescribe its rules of order or procedure in hearings or other proceedings before it and it shall promptly furnish without charge copies thereof upon request. By appropriate order entered on its minutes the board shall appoint a competent shorthand reporter to be present throughout all public hearings held by it, who shall be sworn by the board faithfully to discharge his duties. The board shall have the same control and authority over the reporter for the board that the chancery judge exercises over the court reporter for the chancery court; and the duties of the reporter for the board shall be the same as those fixed by statute for court reporters in Mississippi insofar as said statutes may be applicable. The original transcript of testimony taken in the hearing before the Oil and Gas Board and reduced to writing by the reporter for the board shall be ample evidence of such proceedings and, on appeal to the chancery court, the original of such transcript of testimony shall be used in the chancery court. Further, in the event of an appeal from the chancery court to the Supreme Court, such original transcript of testimony taken before the Oil and Gas Board shall be likewise used in the Supreme Court. The reporter for the Oil and Gas Board shall prepare a sufficient number of copies of such transcript of testimony before the Oil and Gas Board as will permit a copy of same to be on file with the Oil and Gas Board and another copy to be on file at all times with the chancery clerk in event of an appeal to the Supreme Court.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 6132-11; Laws, 1948, ch. 256, Sec. 7a; 1950, ch. 220, Sec. 2; 1958, ch. 185, Sec. 1a; Reenacted without change, 1982, ch. 485, Sec. 10; 1988, ch. 431, Sec. 1, Reenacted, 1990, ch. 357, Sec. 9, eff from and after passage (approved March 13, 1990). Reenacted without change, Laws, 1991, ch. 340, Sec. 10, eff from and after passage (approved March 11, 1991).