2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 3 - Civil Procedure
CHAPTER 622B - DEAF AND HARD=OF=HEARING PERSONS == INTERPRETERS
622B.1 - DEFINITIONS -- RULES.

        622B.1  DEFINITIONS -- RULES.
         1.  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise
      requires:
         a.  "Administrative agency" means any department, board,
      commission, or agency of the state or any political subdivision of
      the state.
         b.  "Deaf person" means an individual who uses sign language
      as the person's primary mode of communication and who may use
      interpreters to facilitate communication.
         c.  "Hard-of-hearing person" means an individual who is unable
      to hear and distinguish sounds within normal conversational range and
      who needs to use speechreading, assistive listening devices, or oral
      interpreters to facilitate communication.
         d.  "Interpreter" means an oral interpreter or sign language
      interpreter.
         e.  "Oral interpreter" means an interpreter who is fluent in
      transliterating, paraphrasing, and voicing.
         f.  "Sign language interpreter" means an interpreter who is
      able to interpret from sign language to English and English to sign
      language.
         2.  The supreme court, after consultation with the department of
      human rights, shall adopt rules governing the qualifications and
      compensation of interpreters appearing in a proceeding before a
      court, grand jury, or administrative agency under this chapter.
      However, an administrative agency which is subject to chapter 17A may
      adopt rules differing from those of the supreme court governing the
      qualifications and compensation of interpreters appearing in
      proceedings before that agency.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C81, § 622B.1] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         85 Acts, ch 131, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1134, §108; 93 Acts, ch 75, §7
         Referred to in § 804.31
         Rules adopted by the supreme court are published in the
      compilation "Iowa Court Rules"