Oregon Statutes - Chapter 809 - Refusal, Suspension, Cancellation and Revocation of Registration, Title, Driving Privileges and Identification Card; Vehicle Impoundment

• 809.010   Court-ordered suspension.
  A court shall order the Department of Transportation to suspend the registration of a motor vehicle required to be registered by the department upon conviction...
• 809.020   Response to court-ordered suspension.
  When the Department of Transportation receives an order from a court to suspend the registration of a vehicle, the department shall respond to the order...
• 809.030   Restoration fee.
  The restoration fee for registration suspended under ORS 809.020 based on a court order under ORS 809.010 is $10. [1983 c.338 §292]
• 809.040   Hearing; notice; judicial review.
  (1) When a hearing is required under ORS 809.020 or 809.050, the Department of Transportation shall afford a person an opportunity of a hearing before...
• 809.050   Revocation or suspension of registration of employer for failure to make future responsibility filing.
  (1) If an employer is required to make future responsibility filings by ORS 806.200 and fails to make the filings, the Department of Transportation shall...
• 809.060   [1983 c.338 §287; 1985 c.16 §118; 1993 c.751 §104; renumbered 809.135 in 2005]
• 809.070   [1983 c.338 §289; 1985 c.16 §119; 1991 c.459 §438j; repealed by 1993 c.751 §106]
• 809.080   Failure to return suspended registration; penalty.
  (1) A person commits the offense of failure to return suspended registration if the person has vehicle registration suspended and the person fails to immediately...
• 809.090   Cancellation of registration or title for failure to qualify.
  (1) The Department of Transportation may cancel the registration or title or both of a vehicle if the department determines that: (a) A holder is...
• 809.095   Cancellation of registration for false certification of compliance with financial responsibility requirements.
  (1) The Department of Transportation may cancel the registration of, or right to apply for registration for, any vehicle owned by a person if the...
• 809.100   Hearing on proposed cancellation or refusal; judicial review.
  (1) When the Department of Transportation proposes to cancel or refuse to issue or renew title or registration, opportunity for hearing shall be accorded as...
• 809.110   Failure to surrender canceled registration or title; penalty.
  (1) A person commits the offense of failure to surrender canceled registration or title if the person holds any evidence of registration or any evidence...
• 809.120   Court recommended suspension of registration or driving privileges for weight violation.
  (1) In addition to any other punishment imposed under ORS 818.040 a convicting court has authority to recommend the suspension of the driving privileges of...
• 809.130   Suspension or revocation of registration or driving privileges for unsettled judgment.
  (1) If a court notifies the Department of Transportation under this section that a judgment remains unsettled as described by ORS 809.470, the department must...
• 809.135   Refusal to issue, revocation or suspension of driving privileges, identification card, registration or title for failure to use same name.
  The Department of Transportation may refuse to issue, may revoke or may suspend any license, permit, identification card, title or registration issued by the department...
• 809.140   Administrative review of suspension, revocation or cancellation of identification card, registration or driving privileges.
  (1) Unless otherwise specifically provided by law, a person whose identification card, vehicle registration or driving privileges are suspended, revoked or canceled by the Department...
• 809.200   [1983 c.338 §389; repealed by 1987 c.730 §23]
• 809.210   Suspension or restriction of driving privileges for failure to pay fine or obey court order; exceptions.
  (1) A court may do any of the following if the defendant is convicted of any traffic offense and fails or refuses to pay a...
• 809.220   Failure to appear; suspension or other procedures.
  This section establishes procedures that are applicable if a person fails to appear on a citation for a traffic offense or for a violation of...
• 809.230   Court suspension or revocation of nonresident driving privileges.
  A court may suspend or revoke the driving privileges to operate a motor vehicle in this state of any nonresident for any cause for which...
• 809.235   Permanent revocation of driving privileges upon conviction of certain crimes; restoration of privileges.
  (1)(a) Notwithstanding ORS 809.409 (2), the court shall order that a person’s driving privileges be permanently revoked if the person is convicted of any degree...
• 809.240   Court imposition of suspension or revocation; taking possession of license or permit; temporary permit.
  (1) If a person is convicted of an offense that will result in mandatory suspension or revocation under ORS 809.409, 809.411, 809.413, 813.400 or 813.403,...
• 809.250   [1983 c.338 §396; 1985 c.669 §14; 1987 c.730 §14; 1993 c.751 §55; renumbered 809.275 in 2005]
• 809.260   Denial of driving privileges for convicted juvenile.
  (1) Whenever a person who is 17 years of age or younger, but not younger than 13 years of age, is convicted of any offense...
• 809.265   Suspension for inhalant or controlled substances conviction.
  (1) Unless the court finds compelling circumstances not to order suspension of driving privileges, the court in which a person is convicted of an offense...
• 809.267   Additional fee upon notice of suspension or restriction.
  A court shall add a $15 fee to the judgment in any case in which the court gives notice to the Department of Transportation of...
• 809.270   Driver improvement course; enforcement by suspension or restriction of privileges.
  (1) A court may require that a defendant convicted of a traffic offense successfully complete, within a time fixed by the judge, a defensive driving...
• 809.275   Court to take possession of license or permit; effective date of suspension or revocation.
  (1) A court shall take immediate possession of any license or driver permit held by a defendant that is issued by any jurisdiction if the...
• 809.280   Department procedures following court order or recommendation; length of suspension or revocation.
  (1) This section establishes the procedures the Department of Transportation shall follow when a court orders or recommends the suspension or revocation of driving privileges....
• 809.290   [1985 c.669 §6; 1991 c.702 §7; 1993 c.751 §58; 2003 c.402 §24; renumbered 809.416 in 2005]
• 809.300   [1985 c.669 §7; repealed by 1991 c.702 §20]
• 809.310   Cancellation or suspension of driving privileges; grounds; surrender of license or permit; duration; reissuance of privileges.
  (1) The Department of Transportation may cancel any driving privileges upon determining that the person is not entitled to the driving privileges under the vehicle...
• 809.320   Cancellation on written request of parent or legal guardian.
  (1) If an applicant for driving privileges must have a parent or legal guardian sign the application before the person qualifies under ORS 807.060, that...
• 809.330   [1983 c.338 §347; 1985 c.669 §11; 1991 c.702 §24; repealed by 1993 c.751 §106]
• 809.340   [1985 c.396 §3; repealed by 1991 c.702 §20]
• 809.350   [1985 c.396 §4; 1999 c.849 §§187,188; repealed by 2001 c.294 §12]
• 809.360   General provisions relating to suspension or revocation of driving privileges.
  (1) For purposes of determining whether grounds exist for revoking or suspending driving privileges, an unvacated forfeiture of bail in another state equals a conviction....
• 809.370   [1983 c.338 §349; 1985 c.16 §163; 1991 c.317 §1; 2003 c.402 §25; renumbered 809.412 in 2005]
• 809.380   Period of suspension; effect; reinstatement; fee.
  All of the following apply to a person whose driving privileges have been suspended: (1) The period of suspension shall last as long as provided...
• 809.390   Period of revocation; effect; reinstatement; fee.
  All of the following apply to a person whose driving privileges have been revoked: (1) The period of revocation shall last as long as required...
• 809.400   Suspension or revocation for out-of-state conviction.
  (1)(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, the Department of Transportation may suspend or revoke the driving privileges of any resident...
• 809.404   Disqualification from holding commercial driver license.
  (1) The Department of Transportation shall suspend a person’s commercial driver license or right to apply for a commercial driver license if the person is...
• 809.405   [1989 c.715 §4; 1999 c.328 §7; repealed by 2001 c.176 §1]
• 809.407   Suspension of commercial driver license for specified railroad crossing violations.
  (1) The driver of a commercial motor vehicle is subject to suspension of the driver’s commercial driver license upon conviction of any of the following:...
• 809.409   Revocation for conviction of crime.
  (1)(a) Upon receipt of a record of conviction of an offense described in this section, the Department of Transportation shall revoke the driving privileges of...
• 809.410   [1983 c.338 §353; 1985 c.16 §166; 1985 c.301 §1; 1985 c.393 §10a; 1985 c.396 §6; 1985 c.669 §2a; 1985 c.714 §6; 1987 c.137 §4; 1987 c.258 §9; 1987 c.262 §4; 1989 c.224 §140; 1989 c.636 §31; 1989 c.715 §6; 1991 c.702 §10; 1993 c.393 §7; 1993 c.400 §2; 1993 c.627 §3; 1993 c.761 §4; 1995 c.79 §370; 1995 c.253 §5; 1995 c.656 §6; 1995 c.661 §1; 1997 c.83 §3; 1999 c.789 §6; 1999 c.796 §1; 1999 c.1077 §9; 2001 c.176 §5; 2001 c.294 §5; 2001 c.492 §9; 2003 c.14 §488; 2003 c.115 §1; repealed by 2003 c.402 §§6a,43]
• 809.411   Suspension for conviction of crime.
  (1)(a) Upon receipt of a record of conviction for an offense described in this section, the Department of Transportation shall suspend the driving privileges of...
• 809.412   Authority of juvenile court for suspension or revocation under ORS 809.409 or 809.411.
  A determination by a juvenile court that a child within its jurisdiction has committed any act that is grounds for suspension or revocation of driving...
• 809.413   Suspension of commercial driver licenses; length of suspension.
  The Department of Transportation shall suspend the commercial driver license of a person when the department receives a record of conviction, notification or notice described...
• 809.415   Suspensions for conduct involving judgments, financial responsibility, dishonesty.
  (1)(a) The Department of Transportation shall suspend the driving privileges of a person who has a judgment of the type described under ORS 806.040 rendered...
• 809.416   When person subject to suspension under ORS 809.415; duration.
  This section establishes circumstances that will make a person subject to suspension under ORS 809.415 (4) and what a person is required to do to...
• 809.417   Suspension for conduct regarding accidents.
  (1)(a) The Department of Transportation shall suspend the driving privileges of a person who fails to file an accident report required under ORS 811.725 or...
• 809.419   Suspensions for physical or mental condition or impairment.
  (1)(a) The Department of Transportation shall suspend the driving privileges of a person if the department requests the person to submit to examination under ORS...
• 809.420   [1983 c.338 §354; 1987 c.547 §1; 1989 c.401 §1; 2001 c.294 §7; 2003 c.402 §28; renumbered 809.428 in 2003]
• 809.421   Suspensions for miscellaneous driving-related actions.
  (1)(a) The Department of Transportation may suspend the driving privileges of a person who: (A) Is habitually incompetent, reckless or criminally negligent in the operation...
• 809.423   Suspensions for nondriving-related actions by minors.
  (1) Upon request by a school superintendent or a school district board under ORS 339.254, the Department of Transportation shall suspend the driving privileges of...
• 809.428   Schedule of suspension or revocation periods for certain offenses.
  This section establishes schedules of suspension or revocation periods. The schedules are applicable upon conviction for the offense when made applicable under ORS 809.411...
• 809.430   Notice of suspension, cancellation or revocation; contents; service.
  (1) When the Department of Transportation, as authorized or required, suspends, revokes or cancels driving privileges, a commercial driver license or the right to apply...
• 809.440   Hearing and administrative review procedures.
  This section establishes hearing and administrative review procedures to be followed when the Department of Transportation is required to provide a hearing or an administrative...
• 809.450   Hearing for rescission of suspension for financial and future responsibility violations; grounds.
  (1) If a person whose driving privileges have been suspended for one of the reasons specified in subsection (2) of this section requests that the...
• 809.460   Rescission of suspension or revocation upon appeal of underlying conviction.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, if a suspension or revocation of driving privileges is based upon a conviction, the court...
• 809.470   When judgment considered settled for purposes of suspension requirements.
  (1) This section establishes when a judgment described under ORS 806.040 is settled for purposes of ORS 809.130, 809.280 and 809.415. A judgment shall be...
• 809.480   Driver improvement programs; rules; purpose; suspension; fee.
  (1) The Department of Transportation may establish, by administrative rule, programs for the improvement of the driving behavior of persons who drive in this state....
• 809.490   Suspension or revocation of driving privileges of nonresident driver; reports to home state.
  (1) If the defendant named in any certified copy of a judgment reported to the Department of Transportation is a nonresident, the department shall transmit...
• 809.500   Failure to return suspended, revoked or canceled license; penalty.
  (1) A person commits the offense of failure to return a suspended, revoked or canceled license if the person has driving privileges suspended and the...
• 809.600   Kinds of offenses and number of convictions.
  This section establishes the kinds of offenses and the number of convictions necessary to revoke the driving privileges of a person as a habitual offender...
• 809.605   Determination of which offenses count; rules.
  The Department of Transportation shall adopt rules specifying which traffic offenses count for the purpose of determining that a person is a habitual offender under...
• 809.610   Restriction of driving privileges; notice; meeting.
  (1) When the Department of Transportation receives an abstract of the conviction under ORS 810.375, and the conviction is the second one of those described...
• 809.620   [1985 c.16 §183; 1989 c.15 §2; repealed by 1991 c.702 §20]
• 809.630   [1985 c.16 §185; repealed by 1991 c.702 §20]
• 809.640   Procedures on habitual offender determination.
  When the Department of Transportation determines from the driving record of a person as maintained by the department that a person’s driving privileges are required...
• 809.650   Effect of habitual offender revocation.
  (1) When the Department of Transportation revokes a person’s driving privileges as a habitual offender under ORS 809.640, the person has no driving privileges for...
• 809.660   Restoration of privileges.
  When a person whose driving privileges have been revoked as a habitual offender becomes eligible for issuance of driving privileges under ORS 809.650, the person...
• 809.698   Definition of “vehicle immobilization device.”
  As used in ORS 809.700 and 809.702, a “vehicle immobilization device” means a device that may be clamped and locked onto a part of a...
• 809.700   Court-ordered impoundment or immobilization upon conviction; grounds; duration; vehicles subject; return; security interest holder rights.
  A court may order a motor vehicle impounded or immobilized upon conviction for the traffic offenses described in this section. The authority to impound or...
• 809.702   Tampering with vehicle immobilization device; penalty.
  (1) A person commits the offense of tampering with a vehicle immobilization device if the person does anything to a vehicle immobilization device that was...
• 809.710   Authority to refuse to release vehicle to intoxicated person.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a police officer, a police agency or any person acting as an agent for either has authority to refuse...
• 809.715   [Formerly 806.014; 1997 c.514 §5; repealed by 2001 c.748 §2]
• 809.716   Hearing on impoundment.
  (1) A person entitled to lawful possession of a vehicle impounded under ORS 809.720 may request a hearing to contest the validity of the impoundment....
• 809.720   Impoundment for specified offenses; grounds; notice; release.
  (1) A police officer who has probable cause to believe that a person, at or just prior to the time the police officer stops the...
• 809.725   Notice following impoundment under city or county ordinance.
  (1) When a motor vehicle is impounded under authority of a city or county ordinance, the city or county shall give notice of the impoundment...
• 809.730   Seizure of motor vehicle for civil forfeiture.
  (1) A motor vehicle may be seized and forfeited if the person operating the vehicle is arrested or issued a citation for driving while under...
• 809.735   Preemption of local forfeiture ordinances.
  (1) The seizure and forfeiture provisions of ORS 809.730 do not preempt a city or county ordinance enacted and in effect on June 22, 1999,...

Last modified: August 7, 2008