(i) Where the Unified Court System is responsible by law for payment to the court reporter—$2.50 per page for an original plus $1.00 per page for each copy, except that: for delivery as required by section 460.70 of the Criminal Procedure Law—$3.50 per page for an original plus no charge for the first copy; and for regular delivery to a judge pursuant to section 299 of the Judiciary Law—no charge.

(ii) Except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, where payment to the court reporter is to come from public funds: for regular delivery — between $2.50 per page and $3.15 per page for an original plus $1.00 per page for each copy; for expedited delivery — between $3.15 per page and $4.25 per page for an original plus $1.10 per page for each copy; and for daily delivery — between $3.75 per page and $5.25 per page for an original plus $1.25 per page for each copy.

(iii) In all instances not covered by subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph: for regular delivery — between $3.30 per page and $4.30 per page for an original plus $1.00 per page for each copy; for expedited delivery — between $4.40 per page and $5.40 per page for an original plus $1.10 per page for each copy; and for daily delivery — between $5.50 per page and $6.50 per page for an original plus $1.25 per page for each copy.

(i) regular delivery shall mean production and delivery of a transcript in ordinary circumstances after the conclusion of the proceedings, and including any production and delivery times that exceed those for expedited or daily delivery;

(ii) expedited delivery shall mean production and delivery of a transcript within five business days for each day's or partial day's proceeding;

(iii) daily delivery shall mean production and delivery of a transcript on the morning of the next business day;

(iv) a copy of a transcript or a portion thereof must be ordered within 30 days of the date on which the original of such transcript or portion thereof was ordered;

(v) delivery times are measured from the time the court reporter receives the order for the transcript or portion thereof;

(vi) where delivery of a transcript is ordered and this section specifies a range of rates for the category of such delivery (i.e., regular delivery, expedited delivery or daily delivery), the court reporter shall be paid at such rate, within such range, as he or she and the ordering party may agree upon based on consideration of the regional and market cost of transcripts and transcript production, complexity of the subject matter of the proceeding involved, and the court reporter's transcript volume. Where the court reporter and the ordering party cannot agree upon a rate, the court reporter shall not be required to produce and deliver the transcript, except where regular delivery has been ordered, in which event the rate of payment therefor shall be the lowest rate within the range of rates specified in this section for regular delivery; and

(vii) a court reporter may, upon agreement with the ordering party, deliver a transcript in the form of a file (in ASCII or other agreed-upon format) on a computer diskette. In such event, such file shall be designated as an original or copy as the court reporter and the ordering party shall agree, and the court reporter shall be entitled to be paid at the otherwise applicable per page rate prescribed hereunder for each page of such transcript included in such file unless the transcript is compressed in which case each quadrant of such transcript (i.e., one of four transcript pages electronically compressed into a single page) shall constitute a separate page for which the court reporter is entitled to be paid at the otherwise applicable per page rate presecribed in this section.