50.052 - Interpreters for person with communications disability: Replacement; persons ineligible for appointment; selection and approval by person with communications disability. - Nevada Statutes

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)