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Home » US Law » 2022 New York Laws » Consolidated Laws » JUD - Judiciary » Article 12 - Interpreters » 387 – Temporary Appointment of Interpreters.

§ 387. Temporary appointment of interpreters. If the services of an interpreter be required in any court and there be no unemployed official interpreter to act therein, the court may appoint an interpreter to act temporarily in such court. Such interpreter shall before entering upon his duties file with the clerk of the court the constitutional oath of office. The court shall fix the compensation of such interpreter at not more than twenty-five dollars per day for each day's actual attendance by direction of the presiding judge or justice and such compensation shall be paid from the court fund of the county upon the order of the court.