CHAPTER 240

An Act to provide for interpreters for the deaf in all criminal cases.
[H 246]
Approved March 31, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. There shall be provided in any criminal case in which a deaf
person is the accused, an interpreter, if available, for the deaf. Such inter-
preter shall be appointed by the judge of the court in which such case is
to be heard, from a list of qualified interpreters provided by the Registry
of Interpreters for the Deaf, and his compensation shall be fixed by the
court, and shall be paid from the general fund of the State treasury, as
part of the expense of trial, but such fee shall not be assessed as part of
the costs. The provisions of this section shall apply in both courts of record
and not of record.