§ 676. Employment of stenographer. When the services of a stenographer
shall not have been provided by the board of supervisors, or if a
stenographer so provided is not available, the coroner, coroner's
physician or medical examiner shall have power to employ a stenographer
for the purpose of taking statements and reducing to writing the
testimony of witnesses or of transcribing or reproducing any report or
document required by his investigation. If the board of supervisors has
not fixed any rate of compensation, such stenographer shall be paid for
taking and transcribing minutes at the rate charged by official court
stenographers in the county.