TITLE 5
Businesses and Professions
CHAPTER 5-71
Licensure of Interpreters for the Deaf
SECTION 5-71-18
§ 5-71-18 Privileged communications.
In the trial of every cause, both civil and criminal, no licensed interpreter
shall be competent to testify concerning any statement made to him or her in
connection with the interpreter's interpretation or transliteration without the
consent of the person making the statement. No duly licensed interpreter shall
be allowed, in giving testimony, to disclose any confidential communication
properly entrusted to him or her in his or her professional capacity and
necessary and proper to enable him or her to discharge the functions of his or
her office in the usual course of practice or discipline without the consent of
the person making the communication.
History of Section.
(P.L. 2006, ch. 261, § 2; P.L. 2006, ch. 277, § 2; P.L. 2015, ch.
164, § 2; P.L. 2015, ch. 188, § 2.)
