As Amended
SEC. 77-1-39. Transcripts of oral testimony.
In all cases where the testimony of witnesses is given orally before the commission any interested party or the commission shall have the right to have said testimony taken down and transcribed by a stenographer or court reporter, who is not an employee of the commission, to be agreed upon by the parties or appointed by the commission. The stenographer or court reporter so employed shall be duly sworn and his or her certificate that the transcript of such evidence is correct together with the official certificate of any one (1) of the commissioners that he has read the same and that it is in his opinion correct shall entitle such transcript or a certified copy thereof to be received in evidence on any appeal or in any court in this state subject only to any objection that the same is not relevant or material. The stenographer or court reporter shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of Section 9-13-33. The commission shall have the right to require any party demanding an official stenographer to guarantee or prepay the costs thereof in all proper cases.
SOURCES: Codes, 1930, Sec. 7037; 1942, Sec. 7814; Laws, 1926, ch. 128; reenacted without change, 1982, ch. 389, Sec. 20; reenacted and amended, 1990, ch. 530, Sec. 18, eff from and after July 1, 1990. Reenacted without change, Laws, 1993, ch. 616, Sec. 16, eff from and after August 30, 1993 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the amendment of this section); reenacted without change, 1996, ch. 526, Sec. 17, eff from and after the date said ch. 526 is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended; reenacted without change, Laws, 1998, Ch. 303, § 17, HB 1291; Reenacted without change, Laws, 2002, ch. 452, § 17, SB 2820, eff July 3, 2002 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to the reenactment of this section.).
PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-2002.