PRINTER'S NO. 1029
No. 906 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY WOJDAK, CAPUTO, KNEPPER, PARKER, ZORD,
M. M. MULLEN, TRELLO, GEISLER, ROMANELLI AND SWEENEY,
MARCH 20, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 20, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 1, 1907 (P.L.135, No.109), entitled "An
2 act relating to the appointment of stenographers and
3 assistant stenographers to report proceedings in the several
4 courts of common pleas, and orphans' courts, courts of oyer
5 and terminer and general jail delivery, and courts of quarter
6 sessions of the peace, of this Commonwealth, as well as
7 before commissioners, masters, and special masters in
8 chancery, referees, examiners, auditors, and other officers;
9 prescribing their powers and duties, and when such reports
10 shall be evidence of the facts reported; prescribing their
11 compensation and allowances for expenses, when the same shall
12 be paid by the county wherein such stenographers or assistant
13 stenographers are employed, and when by the parties to such
14 proceedings; and repealing an act, entitled 'An act directing
15 the appointment of official stenographers in the several
16 civil courts of this Commonwealth; authorizing the
17 appointment of stenographers by examiners, masters, referees,
18 commissioners, and auditors; authorizing the appointment of
19 assistant stenographers;' repealing 'An act to authorize the
20 appointment of stenographers in the several courts of this
21 Commonwealth, prescribing their duties and fixing their
22 compensation,' approved May fifteenth, one thousand eight
23 hundred and seventy-four; repealing 'An act to authorize the
24 appointment of stenographers in the several courts of this
25 Commonwealth, prescribing their duties and fixing their
26 compensation,' approved May eighth, one thousand eight
27 hundred and seventy-six, and repealing 'An act defining the
28 duty of court stenographers in the several counties in this
29 State,' approved June tenth, one thousand eight hundred and
30 eighty-one,' approved the twenty-fourth day of May, one
31 thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven; but such repeal not
32 to revive any law repealed by the said act of twenty-fourth
33 of May, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven,"
1 increasing the compensation of official stenographers for
2 copies of stenographic notes.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 8, act of May 1, 1907 (P.L.135, No.109),
6 entitled "An act relating to the appointment of stenographers
7 and assistant stenographers to report proceedings in the several
8 courts of common pleas, and orphans' courts, courts of oyer and
9 terminer and general jail delivery, and courts of quarter
10 sessions of the peace, of this Commonwealth, as well as before
11 commissioners, masters, and special masters in chancery,
12 referees, examiners, auditors, and other officers; prescribing
13 their powers and duties, and when such reports shall be evidence
14 of the facts reported; prescribing their compensation and
15 allowances for expenses, when the same shall be paid by the
16 county wherein such stenographers or assistant stenographers are
17 employed, and when by the parties to such proceedings; and
18 repealing an act, entitled 'An act directing the appointment of
19 official stenographers in the several civil courts of this
20 Commonwealth; authorizing the appointment of stenographers by
21 examiners, masters, referees, commissioners, and auditors;
22 authorizing the appointment of assistant stenographers;'
23 repealing 'An act to authorize the appointment of stenographers
24 in the several courts of this Commonwealth, prescribing their
25 duties and fixing their compensation,' approved May fifteenth,
26 one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four; repealing 'An act
27 to authorize the appointment of stenographers in the several
28 courts of this Commonwealth, prescribing their duties and fixing
29 their compensation,' approved May eighth, one thousand eight
30 hundred and seventy-six, and repealing 'An act defining the duty
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1 of court stenographers in the several counties in this State,'
2 approved June tenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one,'
3 approved the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight
4 hundred and eighty-seven; but such repeal not to revive any law
5 repealed by the said act of twenty-fourth of May, one thousand
6 eight hundred and eighty-seven," amended September 2, 1961
7 (P.L.1180, No.526), is amended to read:
8 Section 8. Every official stenographer shall be paid, in
9 addition to the compensation provided in section six of this
10 act, [thirty cents] fifty cents for each one hundred words of
11 every copy of the stenographic notes of trials and of other
12 matters in connection with the business of the court, that are
13 furnished to the court or filed of record, and [ten cents]
14 twenty cents for each one hundred words of every copy that is
15 given to counsel or to parties, if ordered so that they may be
16 typewritten at the same time with the filing copy; payment for
17 such copies to be made by the county in which the case is
18 pending, or for which the work is performed upon the order of
19 the presiding judge.
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