Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 6. WITNESSES · Article 3. USE OF SIGN LANGUAGE AND INTERMEDIARY INTERPRETER IN ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS

24-6-654. Indigent hearing impaired defendants to be provided with interpreters.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(a)
A court shall provide a court qualified interpreter to any hearing impaired person whenever the hearing impaired person has been provided with a public defender or court appointed legal counsel.#
(b)
The court qualified interpreter authorized by this Code section shall be present at all times when the hearing impaired person is consulting with legal counsel.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 24-6-654, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

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