NRS656.030. Definitions.

  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

      1.  “Board” means the Certified Court Reporters’ Board of Nevada.

      2.  “Certificate” means a certified court reporter’s certificate issued under the provisions of this chapter.

      3.  “Certified court reporter” or “court reporter” means a person who is technically qualified and registered under this chapter to practice court reporting.

      4.  “Court reporting firm” means a person who, for compensation, provides or arranges for the services of a court reporter or provides referral services for court reporters in this State.

      5.  “Designated representative of a court reporting firm” means the person designated to act as the representative of a court reporting firm pursuant to NRS 656.186.

      6.  “Distance education program” means a program that offers instruction which is delivered by the Internet in such a manner that the person supervising or providing the instruction and the person receiving the instruction are separated geographically for a majority of the time during which the instruction is delivered.

      7.  “License” means a license issued under the provisions of this chapter to conduct business as a court reporting firm.

      8.  “Licensee” means a person to whom a license has been issued.

      9.  “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.

      10.  “Stenographic notes” means:

      (a) The original manually or mechanically produced notes in shorthand or shorthand writing taken by a 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 court reporter while in attendance at a proceeding.

      11.  “Voice writing” means the making of a verbatim record of a proceeding by repeating the words of the speaker into a device that is capable of:

      (a) Digitally translating the words into text; or

      (b) Making a tape or digital recording of those words.

Ê The term includes, without limitation, stenomasking, verbatim reporting and other similar titles.

      (Added to NRS by 1973, 1315; A 1993, 1404; 2001, 1008; 2005, 191; 2007, 1034; 2009, 156; 2011, 217)