Or. Rev. Stat. § 40.272
Rule 509-1. Sign language interpreter privilege
Oregon · Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 40 — Evidence Code · Status: effective
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- Or. Rev. Stat. § 40.272, Rule 509-1. Sign language interpreter privilege, Oregon, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-04, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2451376
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(1) As used in this section:
(a) “Person with a disability” means a person who cannot readily understand or communicate the spoken English language, or cannot understand proceedings in which the person is involved, because of deafness or because of a physical hearing impairment or cannot communicate in the proceedings because of a physical speaking impairment.
(b) “Sign language interpreter” or “interpreter” means a person who translates conversations or other communications for a person with a disability or translates the statements of a person with a disability.
(2) A person with a disability has a privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent a sign language interpreter from disclosing any communications to which the person with a disability was a party that were made while the interpreter was providing interpretation services for the person with a disability. The privilege created by this section extends only to those communications between a person with a disability and another, and translated by the interpreter, that would otherwise be privileged under ORS 40.225 to 40.295.