Title 16, Crimes and Punishments

(1) A person commits the crime of treason if the person levies war against the State of Oregon or adheres to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. (2) No person shall be convicted of treason unless upon the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or upon confession i…

(1) A person commits the crime of riot if while participating with five or more other persons the person engages in tumultuous and violent conduct and thereby intentionally or recklessly creates a grave risk of causing public alarm. (2) Riot is a Class C felony. [1971 c.743 §218]…

(1) A person commits the crime of disorderly conduct in the first degree if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or knowingly creating a risk thereof, the person initiates or circulates a report, knowing it to be false: (a) Concerning an alleged hazardo…

(1) A person commits the crime of disorderly conduct in the second degree if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, the person: (a) Engages in fighting or in violent, tumultuous or threatening behavior; (b) Makes unr…

(1) A person commits the crime of harassment if the person intentionally: (a) Harasses or annoys another person by subjecting such other person to offensive physical contact; (b) Subjects another to alarm by conveying a false report, known by the conveyor to be false, concerning …

(1) A person commits the crime of aggravated harassment if the person, knowing that the other person is a: (a) Staff member, knowingly propels saliva, blood, urine, semen, feces or other dangerous substance at the staff member while the staff member is acting in the course of off…

(1) A person commits the crime of abuse of venerated objects if the person intentionally abuses a public monument or structure, a place of worship or the national or state flag. (2) As used in this section and ORS 166.085, “abuse” means to deface, damage, defile or otherwise phys…

(1) A person commits the crime of abuse of a memorial to the dead if the person: (a) Intentionally destroys, mutilates, defaces, injures or removes any: (A) Tomb, monument, gravestone or other structure or thing placed as or designed for a memorial to the dead; or (B) Fence, rail…

(1) A person commits the crime of abuse of corpse in the second degree if, except as otherwise authorized by law, the person intentionally: (a) Abuses a corpse; or (b) Disinters, removes or carries away a corpse. (2) Abuse of corpse in the second degree is a Class C felony. (3) A…

(1) A person commits the crime of abuse of corpse in the first degree if the person: (a) Engages in sexual activity with a corpse or involving a corpse; or (b) Dismembers, mutilates, cuts or strikes a corpse. (2) Abuse of corpse in the first degree is a Class B felony. [1993 c.29…

(1) A telephone caller commits the crime of telephonic harassment if the caller intentionally harasses or annoys another person: (a) By causing the telephone of the other person to ring, such caller having no communicative purpose; (b) By causing such other person’s telephone to …

(1) A person commits the crime of misconduct with emergency telephone calls if the person: (a) Intentionally refuses to relinquish immediately a party line or public pay telephone after being informed that it is needed for an emergency call; or (b) Requests another to relinquish …

(1) A person commits the crime of interfering with public transportation if the person: (a) Intentionally or knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in or on a public transit vehicle or public transit station; (b) Intentionally or knowingly interferes with the provision or use of …

(1) A person commits the crime of interfering with a health care facility if the person intentionally, knowingly or recklessly interferes with access to or from a health care facility, or disrupts the normal functioning of a health care facility, by: (a) Physically obstructing or…

As used in ORS 166.122 to 166.128: (1) “Critical infrastructure” means a gas, electric or water utility system, an electric substation, a pipeline or other conveyance for carrying gas, natural gas or fuel, a fiber optic cable network, a base transceiver station or other wireless …

(1) A person commits the crime of domestic terrorism in the first degree if the person, with the intent to cause widespread sickness, contagion, serious physical injury, death or the disruption of services provided by critical infrastructure: (a) Intentionally destroys or substan…

(1) A person commits the crime of domestic terrorism in the second degree if the person, with the intent to cause widespread sickness, contagion, serious physical injury, death or the disruption of services provided by critical infrastructure: (a) Intentionally possesses a toxic …

(1) A person commits a bias crime in the second degree if the person: (a) Tampers or interferes with property, having no right to do so nor reasonable ground to believe that the person has such right, with the intent to cause substantial inconvenience to another person because of…

(1) A person commits a bias crime in the first degree if the person: (a) Intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causes physical injury to another person because of the person’s perception of the other person’s race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability…

If a court sentences a person to community service for a violation of ORS 166.155 or 166.165 and the conduct that was the subject of the violation occurred while on the waters of this state or on publicly owned land used for outdoor recreation, the community service may include: …

(1) Except as expressly authorized by state statute, the authority to regulate in any matter whatsoever the sale, acquisition, transfer, ownership, possession, storage, transportation or use of firearms or any element relating to firearms and components thereof, including ammunit…

(1) A county may adopt ordinances to regulate, restrict or prohibit the discharge of firearms within their boundaries. (2) Ordinances adopted under subsection (1) of this section may not apply to or affect: (a) A person discharging a firearm in the lawful defense of person or pro…

(1) A city may adopt ordinances to regulate, restrict or prohibit the discharge of firearms within the city’s boundaries. (2) Ordinances adopted under subsection (1) of this section may not apply to or affect: (a) A person discharging a firearm in the lawful defense of person or …

(1) A city or county may adopt ordinances to regulate, restrict or prohibit the possession of loaded firearms in public places as defined in ORS 161.015. (2) Ordinances adopted under subsection (1) of this section do not apply to or affect: (a) A law enforcement officer. (b) A me…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city, county or other municipal corporation or district may not adopt ordinances that regulate, restrict or prohibit the possession or sale of firearms in a public building that is rented or leased to a person during the term of the l…

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city may continue to regulate the purchase of used firearms by pawnshops and secondhand stores. (2) As used in this section, “secondhand store” means a store or business whose primary source of revenue is the sale of used merchand…

(1) Nothing in ORS 166.170 or 166.171 is intended to preempt, invalidate or in any way affect the operation of any provision of a county ordinance that was in effect on November 2, 1995, to the extent that the provision: (a) Established a procedure for regulating, restricting or …

Any person who, as a result of failure to use ordinary care under the circumstances, wounds any other person with a bullet or shot from any firearm, or with an arrow from any bow, commits a Class B misdemeanor. In addition, any person so convicted shall forfeit any license to hun…

Any person over the age of 12 years who, with or without malice, purposely points or aims any loaded or empty pistol, gun, revolver or other firearm, at or toward any other person within range of the firearm, except in self-defense, shall be fined upon conviction in any sum not l…

As used in ORS 166.250 to 166.270, 166.291 to 166.295 and 166.410 to 166.470: (1) “Antique firearm” means: (a) Any firearm, including any firearm with a matchlock, flintlock, percussion cap or similar type of ignition system, manufactured in or before 1898; and (b) Any replica of…

(1) A person commits the crime of unlawful use of a weapon if the person: (a) Attempts to use unlawfully against another, or carries or possesses with intent to use unlawfully against another, any dangerous or deadly weapon as defined in ORS 161.015; or (b) Intentionally discharg…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, any person who carries concealed upon the person any knife having a blade that projects or swings into position by force of a spring or by centrifugal force, any dirk, dagger, ice pick, slungshot, metal knuckles, or any si…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section or ORS 166.260, 166.270, 166.273, 166.274, 166.291, 166.292 or 166.410 to 166.470, a person commits the crime of unlawful possession of a firearm if the person knowingly: (a) Carries any firearm concealed upon the person; (b) Posse…

(1) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly possess a firearm or ammunition if: (a) The person is the subject of a court order that: (A)(i) Was issued or continued after a hearing for which the person had actual notice and during the course of which the person had an opportunity…

(1)(a) When a respondent becomes subject to an order described in ORS 166.255 (1)(a) prohibiting the respondent from possessing firearms or ammunition, the court shall: (A) Indicate in the order that the respondent is prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition under ORS 1…

(1) Upon receiving a request to return a firearm or ammunition relinquished to a law enforcement agency pursuant to ORS 166.256, the law enforcement agency shall: (a) Notify the Department of Justice of the return request for the purposes of notifying the petitioner of the order;…

(1) When a person is convicted of an offense described in ORS 166.255 (1)(b) or (c), the court shall, at the time of conviction: (a) Indicate in the judgment of conviction that the person is prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition under ORS 166.250 and 166.255; (b) Inf…

(1) ORS 166.250 does not apply to or affect: (a) A parole and probation officer, police officer or reserve officer, as those terms are defined in ORS 181A.355. (b) A federal officer, as defined in ORS 133.005, or a certified reserve officer or corrections officer, as those terms …

A peace officer may not arrest or charge a person for violating ORS 166.250 (1)(a) or (b) or 166.370 (1)(a) if the person has in the person’s immediate possession: (1) A valid license to carry a firearm as provided in ORS 166.291 and 166.292, unless the person possesses a firearm…

When authorized by the officer’s employer, a parole and probation officer, as defined in ORS 181A.355, may carry a firearm while engaged in official duties if the officer has completed: (1) A firearms training program recognized by the Board on Public Safety Standards and Trainin…

(1)(a) A person may not knowingly manufacture or cause to be manufactured within this state, import into this state, or offer for sale, sell or transfer, an undetectable firearm. (b) A violation of paragraph (a) of this subsection is a Class B felony. (2)(a) A person may not know…

(1) A person may not knowingly possess, offer for sale, sell or transfer a firearm unless the firearm has been imprinted with a serial number by a federally licensed firearm manufacturer, importer or dealer, or a gunsmith with a federal firearms license, in accordance with federa…

(1)(a) A person may not knowingly import into this state, offer for sale, sell or transfer an unfinished frame or receiver unless: (A) The person is licensed as a firearm dealer under 18 U.S.C. 923; (B) The name of the manufacturer and an individual serial number is conspicuously…

(1) Any person who has been convicted of a felony under the law of this state or any other state, or who has been convicted of a felony under the laws of the Government of the United States, who owns or has in the person’s possession or under the person’s custody or control any f…

(1) A person commits the crime of unlawful possession of a machine gun, short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun or firearms silencer if the person knowingly possesses any machine gun, short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun or firearms silencer. (2) Unlawful possession …

(1) A person barred from transporting, shipping, possessing or receiving a firearm may file a petition with the Psychiatric Security Review Board for relief from the bar if: (a) The person is barred from possessing a firearm under ORS 166.250 (1)(c)(D) or (E); (b) The person is b…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (11) of this section, a person barred from possessing or receiving a firearm may file a petition for relief from the bar in accordance with subsection (2) of this section if: (a) The person is barred from possessing a firearm under ORS 166.250…

Any person committed to any institution who, while under the jurisdiction of any institution or while being conveyed to or from any institution, possesses or carries upon the person, or has under the custody or control of the person any dangerous instrument, or any weapon includi…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, ORS 131.550 to 131.600 do not apply to the forfeiture of a firearm or other deadly weapon that was possessed, used or available for use to facilitate a criminal offense. (2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this sec…

(1) A political subdivision in this state that sells a weapon described in subsection (2) of this section shall pay the proceeds from the sale of the weapon, less the costs of the sale, to the account of the police agency that received the weapon, to be used for purposes of publi…