There shall be a stenographer attached to said Court, to be appointed and removed by said Court. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment may from time to time authorize the appointment by the Court of an additional stenographer or stenographers who shall continue in office during the pleasure of the Court.
A stenographer of said Court shall attend at all sessions of the Court and take full stenographic notes of the testimony and all other proceedings in each case tried or heard by said Court, unless the Justice presiding at such trial or hearing shall dispense with the services of such stenographer, with respect to all or a portion of the proceedings therein. The Court or a Justice thereof may, in its or his discretion, make an order directing the stenographer to file with the Clerk forthwith, or within a specified time, the original stenographic notes taken upon a trial or hearing whereupon the stenographer must file the same accordingly. Such stenographer shall fully note each rule or decision of the presiding Justice, and when trial is by jury, each and every remark or comment of such Justice during the trial when requested so to do by either party.
The original stenographic notes taken by the stenographer shall be part of the proceedings in the case, and unless they are filed pursuant to an order made as prescribed in the last section, they must be carefully preserved by the stenographer for one (1) year after the trial or hearing, at the expiration of which time he may destroy the same. If the stenographer dies or his office becomes otherwise vacant before the expiration of that time, they must be delivered to his successor in office to be held by him with like effect as if they had been taken by him. They must be written out at length by the stenographer if a Justice of said Court so directs or if the stenographer is required so to do by a party to the action or his attorney. Unless such direction is given or such requisition is made the stenographer shall not be required so to write them out.
The stenographer specified in this Part 2 must furnish to the Justice presiding at a trial with all reasonable diligence a copy written out at length from his stenographic notes of the testimony in the proceedings or any part thereof upon the trial or hearing of any action or proceeding pending in said Court, upon the direction of the Justice presiding thereat and without charge. The stenographer's fees for making a transcript of the testimony on appeal or for a transcript of the testimony furnished to either of the parties or their attorney shall be ten cents ($0.10) per folio.
The stenographers of said Court shall have such compensation as shall be fixed and determined by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the City of Albany.