GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION
CHAPTER 277
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 8B-8 reads as rewritten:
"§ 8B-8. Compensation.
(a) An interpreter
appointed under this Chapter is entitled to a reasonable fee for his services,
including waiting time, time reserved by the courts for the assignment, and
reimbursement for necessary travel and subsistence expenses. The fee
shall be fixed by the appointing authority who shall consider any fee schedule
for interpreters recommended established by the Department of
Human Resources. Reimbursement for necessary travel and subsistence
expenses shall be at rates provided by law for State employees generally.
(b) The fees and expenses of interpreters who serve before any superior or district court criminal and juvenile proceeding are payable from funds appropriated to the Administrative Office of the Courts.
(c) The fees and expenses of interpreters who serve in civil cases and special proceedings are also payable from funds appropriated to the Administrative Office of the Courts.
(d) Fees and expenses of interpreters who serve before a legislative body described in this Article are payable from funds appropriated for operating expenses of the General Assembly.
(e) Fees and expenses of
interpreters who serve before any State administrative agency are payable by
that agency. The agency shall, upon application to the Department of
Human Resources be reimbursed for payments made.
(f) Fees and
expenses of interpreters who serve before city or county administrative
proceedings are payable by the respective city or county. During the fiscal
biennium 1981-83, the city or county shall, upon application to the Department
of Administration, be reimbursed for payments made.
(g) The
Department of Administration and the Office of State Budget and Management
shall report to the 1983 General Assembly on the satisfactoriness of the
funding of this act by special reserve funds and shall recommend whether this
funding be continued and new appropriations made or whether continued reserve
funding is unnecessary."
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1995, and applies to compensation for services performed on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19th day of June, 1995.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives