All questions of law, including the admissibility of testimony, the facts preliminary to such admission and the construction of statutes and other writings and other rules of evidence shall be decided by the court. All discussions of law shall be addressed to it. Whenever the knowledge of the court is by statute made evidence of a fact, the court shall declare such knowledge to the jury, which is bound to accept it as conclusive, except as provided in ORS 40.085.
ORS 136.310
Known as the Uniform Act
The act spans §§ 136–136 (149 sections).
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case State v. Carlson (1991)
Most recently applied in 297 Or. App. 372 - State v. Barbero (May 2019)
Amended by 1983 c.433 §4
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.