§ 28-33-01 — Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
1. "Appointing authority" means the presiding judge of any court, the chairman of any
board, commission, or authority, and the director or commissioner of any department
or agency before which a qualified interpreter is required pursuant to this chapter.
2. "Deaf person" means any person whose hearing is totally impaired or whose hearing
is so seriously impaired as to prohibit the person from understanding voice
communication, or the English language including, but not limited to, a person who is
deaf, mute, deaf-mute, or deaf-blind.
3. "Principal party in interest" means a person in any proceeding in which that person is a
named party or a person with respect to whom the decision or action which may be
taken in any proceeding directly affects.
4. "Qualified interpreter" means an interpreter certified by the national registry of
interpreters for the deaf or North Dakota association for the deaf, or an interpreter who
has been approved by the superintendent of the school for the deaf, or, in the event
such an interpreter is not available, any other interpreter whose actual qualifications
have otherwise been appropriately determined.