2010 Nevada Code
TITLE 4 WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE
Chapter 50 Witnesses
NRS 50.052 Interpreters for person with communications disability: Replacement; persons ineligible for appointment; selection and approval by person with communications disability.
NRS 50.052 Interpreters for person with communications disability: Replacement; persons ineligible for appointment; selection and approval by person with communications disability.
1. If an interpreter appointed for a person with a communications disability is not effectively or accurately communicating with or on behalf of the person with a communications disability, and that fact becomes known to the person who appointed the interpreter, another interpreter must be appointed.
2. Unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties, a person may not be appointed as an interpreter of a person with a communications disability in a proceeding if the interpreter is:
(a) The spouse of the person with a communications disability or related to the person; or
(b) Otherwise interested in the outcome of the proceeding or biased for or against one of the parties.
3. Whenever possible, a person with a communications disability must be given an interpreter of his or her choice or one of whom he or she approves.
(Added to NRS by 1979, 656; A 2001, 1775; 2007, 169)
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