(2) Within 10 days of filing the notice of appeal, an appellant may direct the clerk of the lower tribunal to include or exclude other documents or exhibits filed in the lower tribunal. The directions must be substantially in the form prescribed by rule 9.900(g). If the clerk of the lower tribunal is directed to transmit less than the entire record or a transcript of trial with less than all of the testimony, the appellant must serve with such direction a statement of the judicial acts to be reviewed. Within 20 days of filing the notice, an appellee may direct the clerk of the lower tribunal to include additional documents and exhibits.
(3) The parties may prepare a stipulated statement showing how the issues to be presented arose and were decided in the lower tribunal, attaching a copy of the order to be reviewed and as much of the record in the lower tribunal as is necessary to a determination of the issues to be presented. The parties must advise the clerk of the lower tribunal of their intention to rely on a stipulated statement in lieu of the record as early in advance of filing as possible. The stipulated statement must be filed by the parties and transmitted to the court by the clerk of the lower tribunal within the time prescribed for transmittal of the record.
(2) Court Reporter's Acknowledgment. On service of a designation, the approved court reporter, civil court reporter, or approved transcriptionist must acknowledge at the foot of the designation the fact that it has been received and the date on which the approved court reporter, civil court reporter, or approved transcriptionist expects to have the transcript(s) completed and must serve the so-endorsed designation on the parties and file it with the clerk of the lower tribunal within 5 days of service. If the transcript(s) cannot be completed within 30 days of service of the designation, the approved court reporter, civil court reporter, or approved transcriptionist must request such additional time as is reasonably necessary and must state the reasons therefor. If the approved court reporter, civil court reporter, or approved transcriptionist requests an extension of time, the court must allow the parties 5 days in which to object or agree. The court must approve the request or take other appropriate action and must notify the reporter and the parties of the due date of the transcript(s).
(3) Time for Service of Transcript. Within 30 days of service of a designation, or within the additional time provided for under subdivision (b)(2) of this rule, the approved court reporter, civil court reporter, or approved transcriptionist must transcribe and file with the clerk of the lower tribunal the designated proceedings and must serve copies as requested in the designation. If a designating party directs the approved court reporter, civil court reporter, or approved transcriptionist to furnish the transcript(s) to fewer than all parties, that designating party must serve a copy of the designated transcript(s) on the parties within 10 days of receipt from the approved court reporter, civil court reporter, or approved transcriptionist.
(4) Organization of Transcript. The transcript of the trial must be filed with the clerk of the lower tribunal separately from the transcript(s) of any other designated proceedings. The transcript of the trial must be followed by a master trial index containing the names of the witnesses, a list of all exhibits offered and introduced in evidence, and the pages where each may be found. The pages, including the index pages, must be consecutively numbered, beginning with page 1. The pages must not be condensed.
(5) Statement of Evidence or Proceedings. If no report of the proceedings was made, or if the transcript is unavailable, a party may prepare a statement of the evidence or proceedings from the best available means, including the party's recollection. The statement must be served on all other parties, who may serve objections or proposed amendments to it within 15 days of service. Thereafter, the statement and any objections or proposed amendments must be filed with the lower tribunal for settlement and approval. As settled and approved, the statement must be included by the clerk of the lower tribunal in the record.
(d) Preparation and Transmission of Electronic Record.
(B) All pages of the record must be consecutively numbered. Any transcripts other than the transcript of the trial must continue the pagination of the record pages. Supplements permitted after the clerk of the lower tribunal has transmitted the record to the court must be submitted by the clerk of the lower tribunal as separate Portable Document Format ("PDF") files in which pagination is consecutive from the original record and continues through each supplement.
(C) The entire record, except for the transcript of the trial, must be compiled into a single PDF file. The PDF file must be:
(ii) paginated so that the page numbers displayed by the PDF reader exactly match the pagination of the index; and
(iii) bookmarked, consistently with the index, such that each bookmark states the date, name, and record page of the filing and the bookmarks are viewable in a separate window.
(B) paginated to exactly match the pagination of the master trial index of the transcript of the trial filed under subdivision (b)(4).
(4) The clerk of the lower tribunal must transmit the record and the transcript of the trial to the court by uploading the PDF files:
(B) in accordance with the procedure established by the appellate court's administrative order governing transmission of the record.
(f) Correcting and Supplementing Record.
(2) If the court finds the record is incomplete, it must direct a party to supply the omitted parts of the record. No proceeding will be determined, because of an incomplete record, until an opportunity to supplement the record has been given.
(3) If the court finds that the record is not in compliance with the requirements of subdivision (d) of this rule, it may direct the clerk of the lower tribunal to submit a compliant record, which will replace the previously filed noncompliant record.
