422A.290 - Hearing: Person with communications disability entitled to services of interpreter.

422A.290  Hearing: Person with communications disability entitled to services of interpreter.  Any person who is:

      1.  The subject of a hearing conducted under the authority of the Division; or

      2.  A witness at that hearing,

Ê and who is a person with a communications disability as defined in NRS 50.050, is entitled to the services of an interpreter at public expense in accordance with the provisions of NRS 50.050 to 50.053, inclusive. The interpreter must be appointed by the person who presides at the hearing.

      (Added to NRS by 2005, 22nd Special Session, 10; A 2007, 174)