Title 59, Oregon Vehicle Code

(1) A person commits the offense of acting as a vehicle appraiser without a certificate if the person does not hold a vehicle appraiser certificate issued under ORS 819.480 and the person, for consideration, issues an opinion as to the value of a vehicle. (2) This section does no…

(1) A motor vehicle is subject to safety regulation under ORS 820.030 to 820.070, if the vehicle is furnished by an employer and is used to transport one or more workers to and from their places of employment. All of the following apply to this subsection: (a) The employer must b…

Vehicles used in transportation of persons for hire by a nonprofit entity are subject to safety regulation under ORS 820.030 to 820.070 in addition to worker transport vehicles subjected to such regulation under ORS 820.010. [1983 c.338 §739; 1989 c.992 §23; 2015 c.283 §9]

The Department of Transportation shall make and enforce reasonable rules relating to vehicles described under ORS 820.010 and 820.020. Authority for enforcement of the rules is established under ORS 820.040 to 820.070. The rules shall be embodied in a safety code and the safety c…

(1) The Department of Transportation, in enforcing the safety code established under ORS 820.030, may inspect any vehicle that is described under ORS 820.010 or 820.020. (2) Upon request, the Superintendent of State Police shall assist the department in these inspections. [1983 c…

(1) Whenever the Department of Transportation finds that a vehicle described under ORS 820.010 or 820.020 violates any provision of the safety code adopted under ORS 820.030 or an amendment thereto, the department shall make, enter and serve upon the owner of the vehicle any orde…

(1) The following vehicles shall be maintained in a safe condition and operated in a safe manner at all times: (a) Vehicles described in ORS 820.010. This paragraph applies whether or not the vehicle is used upon a public highway. (b) Vehicles described in ORS 820.020. (2) A pers…

(1) A person commits the offense of driver violation of worker transport vehicle safety code if the person, at any time, operates a vehicle described under ORS 820.010 or 820.020 in a manner that violates any provision of the safety code established under ORS 820.030 or any amend…

(1) The State Board of Education shall adopt and enforce such reasonable standards relating to school bus and school activity vehicle construction and school bus and school activity vehicle equipment as the board deems necessary for safe and economical operation, except that the …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, school buses may be equipped with an octagonal shaped mechanical stop arm that indicates when the bus is stopped to load or unload passengers on a roadway. The stop arms authorized by this section shall be equipped with two alternately …

(1) The State Board of Education shall adopt and enforce rules to establish requirements of operation, qualifications or special training of drivers and special accident reports for school buses and school activity vehicles. (2) The governing board of a public university listed i…

(1) The State Board of Education shall adopt and enforce rules to provide for the inspection of school buses and school activity vehicles to assure that the vehicles are in compliance with requirements under standards and rules established under ORS 820.100 and 820.110, as applic…

The Department of Transportation shall issue registration for a school bus when notified that the vehicle conforms to applicable standards and rules under ORS 820.100 to 820.120 and that the vehicle is safe for operation on the highways. Notification required by this section shal…

The Department of Transportation may revoke the registration of any school bus if the department determines that the vehicle: (1) Is not maintained and operated in accordance with standards and rules applicable to the vehicle under ORS 820.100 to 820.120; or (2) Is not safe for o…

(1) The State Board of Education, by rule, may establish classes or types of vehicles that are not considered school buses or school activity vehicles for purposes of the Oregon Vehicle Code or classes of school buses or school activity vehicles that are not subject to regulation…

(1) A person commits the offense of illegal display of school bus markings if the person displays the words “School Bus” on any vehicle unless the vehicle: (a) Is used in transporting school children to or from school or an authorized school activity or function; and (b) Complies…

(1) A person commits the offense of improper school bus markings if the person displays the words “School Bus” on a vehicle without such words being marked in the front and in the rear in letters eight inches high or higher and of proportionate width. (2) The offense described in…

(1) A person commits the offense of unsafe school vehicle operation if: (a) The person operates or owns and causes or permits to be operated a school bus or school activity vehicle in a manner that is in violation of any standards and rules applicable to the vehicle that are adop…

(1) A person commits the offense of being a minor operating a school vehicle if the person is under 18 years of age and the person drives any of the following while it is in use for the transportation of pupils to or from school or an authorized school activity or function: (a) A…

(1) A person commits the offense of being a minor operating a public passenger vehicle if the person is under 21 years of age and the person drives a motor vehicle while it is in use as a public passenger-carrying vehicle. (2) The offense described in this section, minor operatin…

(1) Golf carts operated in accordance with an ordinance adopted under ORS 810.070 are exempt from registration requirements under the vehicle code. (2) Golf carts or substantially similar vehicles that are operated by persons with disabilities at not more than 15 miles an hour ar…

(1) A person commits the offense of operation of a low-speed vehicle in a prohibited area if the person is a person with a disability and the person operates a golf cart or substantially similar motor vehicle on any highway with a speed designation greater than 25 miles per hour.…

(1) Subject to conditions, limitations, prohibitions and penalties established for emergency vehicle and ambulance drivers under ORS 820.320, the driver of an emergency vehicle or ambulance may do any of the following: (a) Park or stand in disregard of a statute, regulation or or…

(1) A person commits the offense of illegal operation of an emergency vehicle or ambulance if the person is the driver of an emergency vehicle or ambulance and the person violates any of the following: (a) The driver of an emergency vehicle or ambulance may only exercise privileg…

(1) A person commits the offense of failure to make, maintain and make available ambulance records if the person violates any of the following: (a) When an ambulance is used in an emergency situation the driver of the ambulance, within 24 hours after such use, shall cause to be m…

Records required under ORS 820.330 must contain all of the following: (1) The time of day and the date when ambulance service was requested. (2) The name of the ambulance driver and the name of the emergency medical services providers, as defined in ORS 682.025, who provided the …

(1) Subject to any other law or rule pursuant thereto relating to lighting of a vehicle, the Department of Transportation may prescribe required warning lights for ambulances. The requirements established under this section may include, but are not limited to, numbers required, p…

(1) A person commits the offense of illegal ambulance lighting equipment if the person drives or moves on any highway or owns and causes or knowingly permits to be driven or moved on any highway an ambulance that does not contain and is not at all times equipped with warning ligh…

(1) Subject to any other law or rule pursuant thereto relating to the noise of a vehicle, the Department of Transportation may prescribe required sirens or other audible signals for ambulances and emergency vehicles. The requirements established under this section may include, bu…

(1) A person commits the offense of illegal ambulance or emergency vehicle sirens if the person drives or moves on any highway or owns and causes or knowingly permits to be driven or moved on any highway an ambulance or emergency vehicle that does not contain and is not at all ti…

(1) A person commits the offense of unlawful operation of an implement of husbandry if the person operates an implement of husbandry in violation of any of the following: (a) Such vehicle must be driven as closely as is practicable to the right-hand edge of the roadbed, including…

When a travel trailer or special use trailer ceases to be assessed under the ad valorem tax laws of this state as a manufactured structure under ORS 308.880, the trailer must be registered and licensed as a travel trailer or special use trailer. [1983 c.338 §783; 1985 c.16 §379; …

(1) A person commits the offense of violating trip permit requirements for manufactured structures if the person does any of the following: (a) Moves a manufactured structure on a highway of this state without a trip permit for the movement. This paragraph does not apply to movem…

(1) Any motor vehicle designed for or capable of cross-country travel on or immediately over land, water, sand, snow, ice, marsh, swampland or other natural terrain is exempt from the sections governing vehicle equipment described in this section if the vehicle: (a) Is operated i…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the exemption from equipment requirements for off-road vehicles under ORS 821.010 applies to each of the following: (a) Lands that are open to the public. (b) Roads, other than two-lane gravel roads, that are open to the p…

For purposes of the equipment requirements for off-road vehicles under ORS 821.040, the State Parks and Recreation Department may adopt rules to do the following: (1) Establish the type of brakes an off-road vehicle must be equipped with to be in compliance with ORS 821.040. (2) …

(1) A person commits the offense of operation of an off-road vehicle without required equipment if the person is operating a vehicle described in ORS 821.010 in an area described in ORS 821.020 and the vehicle is not equipped in compliance with all of the following: (a) The vehic…

(1) Limits on the authority of cities, counties or other political subdivisions of this state or any state agency are as imposed under ORS 801.040. (2) Fees collected by the Department of Transportation in the regulation of snowmobiles shall be used as provided in ORS 802.110 and…

Notwithstanding ORS 821.020, or any law requiring that vehicles be equipped in specified ways in order to operate on highways, a person may operate Class I, Class II, Class III and Class IV all-terrain vehicles on any highway in this state that is open to the public if: (1) The h…

(1) The Department of Transportation shall provide for the issuance of titles for snowmobiles required to be titled under ORS 821.070. The following provisions relating to titling shall be the same for snowmobiles as for other vehicles: (a) Fee for issuance. (b) Provisions relati…

(1) A person commits the offense of failure to title a snowmobile if the person is the owner of a snowmobile that is in this state or is operating a snowmobile at any place in this state and the snowmobile has not been issued a title as provided under ORS 821.060. (2) The require…

(1) The Department of Transportation shall issue snowmobile registration to a qualified owner. To qualify for issuance of registration under this section: (a) The owner must complete the application in the manner and in a form the department prescribes. (b) The application shall …

This section establishes exemptions from the requirements to register snowmobiles under ORS 821.100. The following are exempt from the registration requirements, either partially or completely as described: (1) A snowmobile owned and operated by the United States, another state o…

(1) A person commits the offense of operation of an unregistered snowmobile if the person operates a snowmobile that is not registered under ORS 821.080. (2) Exemptions from this section are established under ORS 821.090. (3) The offense described in this section, operation of an…

(1) A person commits the offense of failure to renew snowmobile registration if the person is the owner of a snowmobile in this state and the person does not renew registration for the snowmobile in the manner the Department of Transportation prescribes when the registration expi…

(1) A person commits the offense of failure to properly display snowmobile registration numbers if the person is the owner or operator of a snowmobile and the registration numbers issued by the Department of Transportation for the vehicle are not displayed on the vehicle or are d…

(1) An out-of-state snowmobile permit is a vehicle permit that is issued as evidence of a grant of authority to operate in this state a snowmobile that is: (a) Owned by a resident of another state; (b) Not registered in this state or in the other state; and (c) Exempt from regist…

(1) A person commits the offense of failure to carry an out-of-state snowmobile permit if an out-of-state permit is issued for the vehicle under ORS 821.130 and the permit is not carried on the snowmobile at all times during operation of the snowmobile in this state. (2) The offe…

(1) A person commits the offense of failure to carry an out-of-state all-terrain vehicle permit if an out-of-state permit is issued for the vehicle under ORS 390.590 and the permit is not carried on the all-terrain vehicle at all times during operation of the all-terrain vehicle …

(1) A person commits the offense of operation of a snowmobile without driving privileges if the person operates a snowmobile without one of the following having been issued to the person and on the person at the time the person is operating the snowmobile: (a) A driver license. (…