Sec. 1828. Special interpretation services
- (a) The Director of the Administrative Office of the United
States Courts shall establish a program for the provision of special
interpretation services in criminal actions and in civil actions initiated by
the United States (including petitions for writs of habeas corpus initiated in
the name of the United States by relators) in a United States district court.
The program shall provide a capacity for simultaneous interpretation services
in multidefendant criminal actions and multidefendant civil actions.
- (b) Upon the request of any person in any action for which
special interpretation services established pursuant to subsection (a) are not
otherwise provided, the Director, with the approval of the presiding judicial
officer, may make such services available to the person requesting the
services on a reimbursable basis at rates established in conformity with
section 9701 of
title 31, but the Director may require the prepayment of the estimated
expenses of providing the services by the person requesting them.
- (c) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the
expenses incident to providing services under subsection (a) of this section
shall be paid by the Director from sums appropriated to the Federal judiciary.
A presiding judicial officer, in such officer's discretion, may order that all
or part of the expenses shall be apportioned between or among the parties or
shall be taxed as costs in a civil action, and any moneys collected as a
result of such order may be used to reimburse the appropriations obligated and
disbursed in payment for such services.
- (d) Appropriations available to the Director shall be
available to provide services in accordance with subsection (b) of this
section, and moneys collected by the Director under that subsection may be
used to reimburse the appropriations charged for such services. A presiding
judicial officer, in such officer's discretion, may order that all or part of
the expenses shall be apportioned between or among the parties or shall be
taxed as costs in the action.
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