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NRS 171.1538: Arrest of person with communications disability: Waiver of right to interpretation or communication.

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  1. TITLE 14 — PROCEDURE IN CRIMINAL CASES
  2. CHAPTER 171 - PROCEEDINGS TO COMMITMENT
  3. ARREST: BY WHOM AND HOW MADE

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.

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