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

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

2. “Business entity” means any form of business organization, including, without limitation, a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, limited-liability company or limited-liability partnership. The term does not include a natural person or governmental entity.

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

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

5. “Court reporting firm” means a business entity that, for compensation, provides or arranges for the services of a certified court reporter or provides referral services for certified court reporters in this State.

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

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

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

9. “Licensee” means a business entity to which a license has been issued.

10. “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.

11. “Stenographic notes” means:

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

12. “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.

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; 2017, 2215)