§ 1828. — Special interpretation services.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 28USC1828]
TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
PART V--PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 119--EVIDENCE; WITNESSES
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.
(Added Pub. L. 95-539, Sec. 2(a), Oct. 28, 1978, 92 Stat. 2042; amended
Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 3(g), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1065.)
Amendments
1982--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97-258 substituted ``section 9701 of
title 31'' for ``section 501 of the Act of August 31, 1951 (ch. 376,
title 5, 65 Stat. 290; 31 U.S.C. 483a)''.
Effective Date
Section effective ninety days after Oct. 28, 1978, see section 10(b)
of Pub. L. 95-539, set out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note
under section 602 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 604, 1827, 1920 of this
title.
