California Code of Regulations › Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations › Division 24 - Court Reporters Board of California › Article 8 - Denial, Suspension and Revocation of Certificates › Section 2475 - Professional Standards of Practice

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Consistent with any action that may be
				taken by the Board pursuant to Sections
				8025 and
				8025.1 of the Code, the Board may
				cite a business that renders professional services, namely shorthand reporting
				services, within the meaning of Corporations Code Section
				13401 or
				cite or discipline any certificate holder, including suspending, revoking, or
				denying the certification of a certified shorthand reporter, for violation of
				professional standards of practice.
(b) Every person under the jurisdiction of
				the Board who holds a license or certificate, or temporary license or
				certificate, or business that renders professional services, namely shorthand
				reporting services, within the meaning of Corporations Code Section
				13401,
				shall comply with the following professional standards of practice:
(1) Make truthful and accurate public
				statements when advertising professional qualifications and competence and/or
				services offered to the public.
(2)
				Maintain confidentiality of information which is confidential as a result of
				rule, regulation, statute, court order, or deposition proceedings.
(3) Perform professional services within the
				scope of one's competence, including promptly notifying the parties present or
				the presiding officer upon determining that one is not competent to continue an
				assignment. A licensee may continue to report proceedings after such
				notification upon stipulation on the record of all parties present or upon
				order of the presiding officer.
(4)
				Comply with legal and/or agreed-to delivery dates and/or provide prompt
				notification of delays.
(5) In
				addition to the requirements of Section
				2025.220(a)(5)
				of the Code of Civil Procedure, promptly notify, when reasonably able to do so,
				all known parties in attendance at a deposition or civil court proceeding
				and/or their attorneys of a request for preparation of all or any part of a
				transcript, including a rough draft, in electronic or paper form. No such
				notification is necessary when the request is from the court.
(6) Act without bias toward, or prejudice
				against, any parties and/or their attorneys.
(7) Not enter into, arrange, or participate
				in a relationship that compromises the impartiality of the certified shorthand
				reporter, including, but not limited to, a relationship in which compensation
				for reporting services is based upon the outcome of the proceeding.
(8) Other than the receipt of compensation
				for reporting services, neither directly or indirectly give nor receive any
				gift, incentive, reward, or anything of value to or from any person or entity
				associated with a proceeding being reported. Such persons or entities shall
				include, but are not limited to, attorneys or an attorney's family members,
				employees of attorneys or an employee's family members, law firms as single
				entities, clients, witnesses, insurers, underwriters, or any agents or
				representatives thereof. Exceptions to the foregoing restriction shall be as
				follows:
(A) giving or receiving items that
				do not exceed $100 (in the aggregate for any combination of items given and/or
				received) per calendar year to or from an attorney or an attorney's family
				members, an employee of an attorney or an employee's family members, a law firm
				as a single entity, a client, a witness, an insurer, an underwriter, or any
				agent or representative thereof; or
(B) providing services without charge for
				which the certified shorthand reporter reasonably expects to be reimbursed from
				the Transcript Reimbursement Fund, Sections
				8030 et seq. of the Code, or
				otherwise for an "indigent person" as defined in Section
				8030.4(f) of the
				Code.