Ind. Porter Cnty. Local Rule LR64-AR15-7000

The undersigned courts comprise all of the courts of record of Porter County, Indiana, and

hereby adopt the following local rule by which court reporter services shall be governed.

7000.10 DEFINITIONS

(1) A Court Reporter is a person who is specifically designated by a court to perform the

official court reporting services for the court including preparing a transcript of the

record.

(2) Equipment means all physical items owned by the court or other governmental entity and

used by a court reporter in performing court reporting services. Equipment shall include,

but not be limited to, telephones, computer hardware, software programs, disks, tapes, and

any other device used for recording and storing, and transcribing electronic data.

(3) Work space means that portion of the court=s facilities dedicated to each court reporter,

including but not limited to actual space in the courtroom and any designated office

space.

(4) Regular Page means the page unit of transcript which results when prepared in non-

appellate fashion.

(5) Appellate page means the page unit of transcript which results when prepared with

marginal notes, footnotes, or headers, and Table of Contents in the form required by

Indiana Rules of Appellate Procedure.

(6) Recording means the electronic, mechanical, stenographic or other recording made as

required by Indiana Rule of Trial Procedure 74.

(7) Regular hours worked means those hours which the court is regularly scheduled to work

during any given work week. Depending on the particular court, these hours may vary

from court to court within the court but remain the same for each work week.

(8) Gap hours worked means those hours worked that are in excess of the regular hours

worked but hours not in excess of forty (40) hours per work week.

(9) Overtime hours worked means those hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours per work

week.

(10) Work week means a seven (7) consecutive day week that consistently begins and ends on

the same days throughout the year; i.e. Sunday through Saturday, Wednesday through

Tuesday, Friday through Thursday.

(11) Court means the particular court for which the court reporter performs services. Court

may also mean all of the courts in Porter County.

(12) County indigent transcript means a transcript that is paid for from county funds and is for

the use on behalf of a litigant who has been declared indigent by a court.

(13) State indigent transcript means a transcript that is paid for from state funds and is for the

use on behalf of a litigant who has been declared indigent by a court.

(14) Private transcript means a transcript, including but not limited to a deposition transcript,

that is paid for by a private party.

(15) Expedited transcript means any transcript requested to be delivered sooner than one week

before the record is due to be filed with the Clerk of the Court of Appeals.

7000.20 SALARIES AND PER PAGE FEES

(1) Court reporters shall be paid an annual salary for time spent working under the control,

direction and direct supervision of their supervising court during any regular work hours,

gap hours or overtime hours. The supervising court shall enter into written agreement

with the court reporters which outlines the manner in which the court reporter is to be

compensated for gap and overtime hours; i.e. monetary compensation or compensatory

time off regular work hours.

(2) The maximum per page fee a court reporter may charge for the preparation or a county

indigent transcript shall be a regular page rate of $ 4.00 per page; $ 4.25 per page,

appellate pay rate; and an expedited rate of $ 7.00 per page for expedited transcripts. The

court reporter shall submit directly to the county a claim for the preparation of the county

indigent transcript. In setting this rate, we take into account the use of county equipment

for transcription.

(3) The maximum per page fee a court reporter may charge for the preparation of a state

indigent transcript shall be a regular page rate of $ 4.50 per page, payable as follows:

$4.00 per page directly to the court reporter and $ .50 per page paid directly to the county

if county equipment is used for transcription; and $ 4.75 per page, appellate page rate,

payable as follows: $ 4.25 per page payable directly to the court reporter and $ .50 per

page paid directly to the county if county equipment is used for transcription; and an

expedited rate of $7.00 per page for expedited transcripts, with $ .50 per page paid

directly to the county if county equipment is used for transcription.

(4) The maximum per page fee a court reporter may charge for the preparation of a private

transcript shall be a regular page rate of $ 5.50 per page, payable as follows: $ 5.00 per

page payable directly to the court reporter and $ .50 per page paid directly to the county if

county equipment is used for transcription; $ 5.75 per page, appellate page rate, payable

as follows:

$ 5.25 per page payable directly to the court reporter and $ .50 per page payable directly

to the county if county equipment is used for transcription; and an expedited rate of $9.00

per page for expedited transcripts, with $ .50 per page paid directly to the county if county

equipment is used for transcription.

(5) The maximum fee that a court reporter may charge for copies shall be $2.50 per

page.

(6) The minimum fee that a court reporter may charge for transcripts is $50.00.

(7) An additional labor charge of the hourly rate based upon the court reporter=s annual court

compensation may be charged for the time spent binding the transcript and exhibits.

Scanning exhibits and creating folders within CD’s for the transcript, table of contents,

and exhibits shall also be compensated.

(8) Each court reporter shall report, at least on an annual basis, all transcript fees received for

the preparation of either county indigent, state indigent or private transcripts to the Indiana

Supreme Court Division of State Court Administration. The reporting shall be made on

forms prescribed by the Division of State Court Administration.

7000.30 PRIVATE PRACTICE.

(1) If a court reporter elects to engage in private practice through the recording of a

deposition and/or preparing of a deposition transcript, and the court reporter desires to

utilize the court=s equipment, work space and supplies, and the court agrees to the use of

the court equipment for such purpose, the court and the court reporter shall enter into a

written agreement which must, at a minimum, designate the following:

(a) The reasonable market rate for the use of equipment, work space and supplies;

(b) The method by which records are to be kept for the use of equipment, work space

and supplies; and

(c) The method by which the court reporter is to reimburse the court for the use of the

equipment, work space and supplies.

(2) If a court reporter elects to engage in private practice through the recording of a

deposition and/or preparing of a deposition transcript, all such private practice work shall

be conducted outside of regular working hours.