{"data":{"id":"us-or/ors-40.272","jurisdiction":"us-or","citation":"ORS 40.272","heading":"Rule 509-1. Sign language interpreter privilege.","body":"(1) As used in this section:\n      (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.\n      (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.\n      (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.","path":["01 - Courts, Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure","4. Evidence and Witnesses","Chapter 40 — Evidence Code"],"source_url":"https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors040.html","current_through":"2025 Edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T23:50:10Z","sha256":"9ad1ebb8a3acf53d12bcfee8857ec62ace8bf4c1caffb4d1ff4f810818f50976","source_id":"us-or","stale":false,"prev":"us-or/ors-40.270","next":"us-or/ors-40.273"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}