TITLE 9

EVIDENCE

CHAPTER 18

UNIFORM CHILD WITNESS TESTIMONY BY ALTERNATIVE METHODS ACT

9-1803.  Applicability. This chapter applies to the testimony of child witnesses in all criminal or noncriminal proceedings. However, this chapter does not preclude, in a noncriminal proceeding, any other procedure permitted by law for a child witness to testify, or in a juvenile courtroom proceeding involving conduct that if engaged in by an adult would constitute a violation of a criminal law of this state, testimony by a child witness in a closed forum as may be authorized or required by law.

History:

[9-1803, added 2003, ch. 152, sec. 2, p. 438.]