There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a Court Reporters Board of California, which consists of five members, three of whom shall be public members and two of whom shall be...

Appointment as a member of the board shall be for a term of four years. Members of the board shall hold office until the appointment and qualification of their successors or until one...

Each member of the board shall receive a per diem and expenses as provided in Section 103....

At each yearly meeting a chairman and vice chairman shall be elected from the membership of the board. Three members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The...

The expenses of the members of the board and the expenses of the board that are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter shall be paid from the fees collected under this...

The Court Reporters Board of California is charged with the executive functions necessary for effectuating the purposes of this chapter. It may appoint committees as it deems necessary...

Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the Court Reporters Board of California in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...

The board shall: (a) Determine the qualifications of persons applying for certificates under this chapter. (b) Make rules for the examination of applicants and the issuing of...

The board has the following powers and duties: (a) To adopt a seal. (b) By affirmative vote of at least three members of the board, to suspend, revoke, or impose any other...

Disciplinary proceedings under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code and the board shall have all...

Information regarding a complaint against a specific licensee may not be disclosed to the public until an accusation has been filed by the board and the licensee has been notified of the...

The board shall promulgate, by regulation, a definition of a full-time student for the purposes of this chapter....

This chapter is designed to establish and maintain a standard of competency for those engaged in the practice of shorthand reporting, for the protection of the public, in general, and...

No person shall engage in the practice of shorthand reporting as defined in this chapter, unless that person is the holder of a certificate in full force and effect issued by the board....

The practice of shorthand reporting is defined as the making, by means of written symbols or abbreviations in shorthand or machine shorthand writing, of a verbatim record of any...

Any natural person holding a valid certificate as a shorthand reporter, as provided in this chapter, shall be known as a certified shorthand reporter. Except as provided in Section...

A violation of any provision of this chapter is a misdemeanor. Any person who directly or indirectly assists in or abets the violation of, or conspires to aid or abet in the violation...

Any person over the age of 18 years, who has not committed any acts or crimes constituting grounds for the denial of licensure under Sections 480, 8025, and 8025.1, who has a high...

Examinations shall be held at least semiannually, and at such times and places as the board may designate....

(a) Each applicant for a certificate under this chapter shall file an application with the executive officer, on a form as prescribed by the board. The last date to file an application shall be...

No certificate shall be issued until the applicant has passed the examination prescribed by the board....

If an applicant for a certificate is from a country where the principal language spoken is one other than English, the board may, in addition to any other examination required by...

All certificates issued under this chapter shall be valid for a period of one year, except for the initial period of licensure as prescribed by the board, and shall expire at 12 midnight on...

Every person to whom a certificate is issued shall, as a condition precedent to its issuance, and in addition to any other fee which may be payable, pay the initial certificate fee...

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, a certificate that has expired may be renewed at any time within the period set forth in Section 8024.5 by doing all of the following: ...

A suspended certificate is subject to expiration and shall be renewed as provided in this article, but such renewal does not entitle the holder of the certificate, while it remains...

A revoked certificate is subject to expiration as provided in this article, but it may not be renewed. If it is reinstated after its expiration, the holder of the certificate, as...

A certificate that is not renewed within three years after its expiration may not be renewed, restored, reinstated, or reissued thereafter. The holder of the certificate shall return...

(a) A certificate holder shall give written notice to the board at its office in Sacramento of a name change within 30 days after each change, giving both the old and the new names. A copy...

The board shall establish an inactive category of licensure for persons who are not actively engaged in the practice of shorthand reporting. (a) The holder of an inactive license...

A certificate issued under this chapter may be suspended, revoked, denied, or other disciplinary action may be imposed for one or more of the following causes: (a) Conviction of any felony...

(a) In addition to the causes for discipline or denial of certification set forth in Section 8025, the board may suspend or revoke any certificate, or deny certification, on any of...

A plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere made to a charge substantially related to the qualifications, functions and duties of a certified...

(a) As used in this section, school means a court reporter training program or an institution that provides a course of instruction approved by the board and the Bureau for...

IN ORDER FOR A PERSON TO QUALIFY FROM A SCHOOL TO TAKE THE STATE LICENSING EXAMINATION, THE PERSON SHALL COMPLETE A PROGRAM AT A RECOGNIZED SCHOOL. FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING...

(l) Each court reporting school shall file with the board, not later than June 30 of each year, a current school catalog that shows all course offerings and staff, and for private schools,...

In addition to the authority to conduct disciplinary proceedings under this chapter, the board, through its duly authorized representatives, shall have authority to issue administrative citations...

All fees and other revenues received by the board shall be reported promptly to the State Controller and shall be deposited with the State Treasurer to be placed in the Court Reporters'...

(a) To provide shorthand reporting services to low-income litigants in civil cases, who are unable to otherwise afford those services, funds generated by fees received by the board...

As used in this chapter: (a) Qualified legal services project means a nonprofit project incorporated and operated exclusively in California that provides as its primary purpose and...

The board shall disburse funds from the Transcript Reimbursement Fund for the costs, exclusive of per diem charges, of preparing either an original transcript and one copy thereof,...

(a) For purposes of this chapter, documentation accompanying an invoice is sufficient to establish entitlement for reimbursement from the Transcript Reimbursement Fund if it is filed with...

(C) Total charges and rates in connection with transcription of court proceedings. (b) For an applicant claiming to be eligible pursuant to subdivision (a), (b), or (c) of Section 8030.4, a...

The amount of the fees required by this chapter is that fixed by the board in accordance with the following schedule: (a) The fee for filing an application for each examination shall be no...

A shorthand reporting corporation is a corporation which is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, as long as that corporation and...

It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or indirectly, or assist in or...

The name of a shorthand reporting corporation and any name or names under which it may be rendering professional services shall contain and be restricted to the name or the last name of one...

Except as provided in Section 13403 of the Corporations Code, each director, shareholder, and officer of a shorthand reporting corporation shall be a licensed person as defined by Section...

The income of a shorthand reporting corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined by Section 13401 of the...

A shorthand reporting corporation shall not do or fail to do any act the doing of which or the failure to do which would constitute unprofessional conduct under any statute, rule or regulation...

The board may formulate and enforce rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this article, including rules and regulations requiring (a) that the articles of incorporation or bylaws...