| 3.10—Signing
and Waiver of Signatures
When the testimony has been fully transcribed, the
transcript shall be submitted to the deponent for inspection and for signing
and shall be read to or by the deponent and shall be signed, unless the
inspection, reading, and signing are waived by the deponent, or the deponent
is ill, or the deponent cannot be found, or the deponent refuses to sign.
Any changes in form or substance that the deponent desires to make shall
be entered upon the transcript, which shall be signed by the deponent.
If the transcript is not signed by the deponent within ten days from the
date of its submission to the deponent, the reporter who took the deposition
shall certify the transcript in the usual form and state on the record
the fact of the waiver, of the illness or absence of the deponent, or
the refusal to sign together with the reason, if any, given therefor.
The transcript may then be used as fully as though signed, unless the
Hearing Committee to which the deposition is tendered holds that the reasons
given for the refusal to sign require rejection of the deposition testimony
in whole or in part.
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