Definitions

As used in section 20-654-1 to section 20-654-8, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, the terms \"Board\", \"Licensed shorthand reporter\" and \"Shorthand reporting\" shall have the same meaning as provided in section 20-650 of the Connecticut General Statutes, and: (1) \"Court reporter\" means a person who records verbatim testimony in formal and informal legal proceedings in the direct employ of, or on a per diem basis for, the state of Connecticut or the United States of America; (2) \"Financial interest\" means any business relationship between a licensed shorthand reporter and a party to a proceeding, whether or not that party has a financial stake in the proceeding, or an attorney participating in a proceeding or an agent for either of them, other than a business engagement for court reporting services related to a particular case or reporting incident, in which a reporter derives, directly or indirectly, any benefit other than from the specific services provided in the particular case or reporting incident; and (3) \"Shorthand reporter\" means a person who makes a verbatim record of the spoken word by the use of written symbols, either manually or by the use of a stenotype machine or computer-aided stenotype transcription machine.