Rule 4007 - Requests for Transcripts. Payments(A) All requests for a transcripts shall be filed with the Court Administrator.(B) Upon receipt of a request for an ordinary transcript, the Court Administrator shall forthwith instruct the appropriate court reporter to prepare a brief statement of estimated cost. In preparing such statement, the court reporter shall calculate the estimated cost by using the price rates explicitly established by the Pennsylvania Rules of Judicial Administration or other rates approved pursuant thereto.(C) A partial payment shall be made by the requester after the Court Administrator has informed the requester of the estimated cost. A partial payment in the amount of seventy-five percent (75%) of the estimated cost shall be made for an ordinary transcript. A partial payment in the amount of ninety per cent (90%) of the estimated cost shall be made for all other transcripts. All checks shall be made payable to "The Treasurer of Armstrong County." All checks shall be delivered to the Court Administrator.(D) The Court Administrator shall receive payment for any balance owed for the transcript. All checks shall be payable to "County of Armstrong." The Court Administrator shall deliver the transcript to the requester upon receipt of such payment.(E) If a filing office (Office of the Prothonotary, Clerk of Courts, or the Clerk of the Orphans' Court Division) receives a request for a copy of a transcript already delivered to it by a court reporter, it shall forward the same to the Court Administrator. The Court Administrator shall proceed in accordance with this Rule. The filing office is prohibited from making a copy of a transcript, paperbound or otherwise.(F) The provisions of this Local Rule regarding deposits and final payments shall not apply to a request for a transcript where the Commonwealth or any subdivision thereof is the requester, or where the requester has been given in forma pauperis status. Legal aid clients shall be entitled to obtain an ordinary transcript at no cost, provided that Laurel Legal Services, or any other legal aid agency representing the requester, must first provide the President Judge with a letter of certification verifying, as provided in R.J.A. 4008(B), that the client meets financial eligibility and that the matter is under appeal or that the transcript being requested is necessary to advance the current litigation.Adopted November 16, 2016. Effective 1/10/2017