When a witness cannot communicate or understand the English language the court shall procure and appoint a disinterested interpreter or translator for him who shall be compensated for those services as the court shall certify to be reasonable and just, to be paid and collected as other costs.
S.D. Codified Laws § 19-3-7
Interpreter for witness unable to communicate in English--Compensation
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Weisbeck v. Hess (1994)
Most recently applied in Zhang v. Rasmus (July 2019)
Source: SL 1868-9, ch 6, § 18; PolC 1877, ch 39, § 29; CCivP 1877, § 502; CL 1887, §§ 1433, 5316; RPolC 1903, § 1855; RCCivP 1903, § 541; SL 1911, ch 187; RC 1919, §§ 2733, 5194…
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