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 reporters 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.
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