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# O.C.G.A. § 15-14-22. Definitions.

As used in this article, the term:

(1) “Board” means the Board of Court Reporting of the Judicial Council.

(2) “Certified court reporter” means any person certified under this article to practice verbatim reporting.

(3) “Court reporter” means any person who is engaged in the practice of court reporting as a profession as defined in this article. Such term shall include not only those who actually report judicial proceedings in courts but also those who make verbatim records as described in paragraph (4) of this Code section.

(4) “Court reporting” means the making of a verbatim record by means of manual shorthand, machine shorthand, closed microphone voice dictation silencer, or by other means of personal verbatim reporting of any testimony given under oath before, or for submission to, any court, referee, or court examiner or any board, commission, or other body created by statute, or by the Constitution of this state or in any other proceeding where a verbatim record is required. The taking of a deposition is the making of a verbatim record as described in this article. Such term shall not include the operation of a digital recording system aside from those methods of making a verbatim record that require the passage of an examination accepted by the board pursuant to Code Section 15-14-30.

(5) “Digital recording system” means any method for creating an electronic audio or audiovisual recording of a court proceeding for the purpose of creating a verbatim transcript as provided for by uniform court rules adopted and published by order of the Supreme Court with the advice and consent of the council of the affected class or classes of trial courts.

## History

Ga. L. 1974, p. 345, § 4; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1315, § 7; Ga. L. 2025, p. 151, § 2-7/HB 179, effective January 1, 2026.

## Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective January 1, 2026, in paragraph (3), substituted “Such term” for “The term ‘court reporter’” and “described” for “defined”; in paragraph (4), substituted “described in this article” for “defined in this article” at the end of the second sentence and added the last sentence; and added paragraph (5).

## Delayed Effective Date

Code Section 15-14-22 is set out twice in this Code. This version is effective January 1, 2026. For version effective until January 1, 2026, see the preceding version.