§ 798. Probative force of transcripts
All transcripts of evidence or proceedings in a cause or hearing tried in superior court, probate court or district court or before an auditor, referee, or commissioner, ordered to be reported by the presiding judge, probate or district judge, and made by or under the direction of the reporter and duly certified by him to be a verbatim transcript of his verbatim stenographic notes of such evidence or proceedings, shall be received as evidence in any action, civil or criminal, if relevant thereto. (Amended 1965, No. 194, § 10, operative Feb. 1, 1967; 1979, No. 181 (Adj. Sess.), § 16.)