New Hampshire Revised Statutes 521-A:2 – Interpreter Required
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 521-A:2
- Appointing authority: means the presiding justice of any court, the chairman of any board, commission or authority, and the director or commissioner of any department or agency, or any other person presiding at any hearing or other proceeding wherein a qualified interpreter is required pursuant to this chapter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 521-A:1
- Deaf person: means any person whose hearing is so impaired as to seriously prohibit the person from processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, so as to require the use of an interpreter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 521-A:1
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- Principal party in interest: means a person in any proceeding in which he is a named party or a person with respect to whom the decision or action which may be taken in any proceeding directly affects. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 521-A:1
- Qualified interpreter: means an interpreter licensed under RSA 326-I. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 521-A:1
- state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
At all stages of any proceeding before any court, department, board, commission, agency or licensing authority of the state; any political subdivision of the state; or any department, board, commission, agency or licensing authority of a political subdivision in which a deaf person is a principal party in interest the appointing authority shall appoint, upon request of the deaf principal, a qualified interpreter to interpret or to translate the proceedings to the deaf person and to interpret or translate his testimony.