NRS171.1538. Arrest of person with communications disability: Waiver of right to interpretation or communication.


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  •       1.  The rights to interpretation and communication provided in NRS 171.1536 and 171.1537 may not be waived except knowingly and voluntarily by the person with a communications disability by a written statement indicating a desire not to be so assisted. At any time after arrest but before the termination of any custody, the person may retract a waiver by indicating a desire to be so assisted.

          2.  Unless there is a waiver under this section, there must be no interrogation or taking of the statement of a person with a communications disability without the assistance of an interpreter in accordance with the provisions of NRS 50.050 to 50.053, inclusive.

      (Added to NRS by 1975, 309; A 2001, 1776; 2007, 170)