Oregon Statutes - Chapter 165 - Offenses Involving Fraud or Deception

• 165.002   Definitions for ORS 165.002 to 165.070.
  As used in ORS 165.002 to 165.027, and 165.032 to 165.070, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Written instrument” means any paper, document, instrument, article...
• 165.005   [Amended by 1955 c.435 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.007   Forgery in the second degree.
  (1) A person commits the crime of forgery in the second degree if, with intent to injure or defraud, the person: (a) Falsely makes, completes...
• 165.010   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.012   [1963 c.553 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.013   Forgery in the first degree.
  (1) A person commits the crime of forgery in the first degree if the person violates ORS 165.007: (a) And the written instrument is or...
• 165.015   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.017   Criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree.
  (1) A person commits the crime of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree if, knowing it to be forged and with...
• 165.020   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.022   Criminal possession of a forged instrument in the first degree.
  (1) A person commits the crime of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the first degree if, knowing it to be forged and with...
• 165.025   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.027   Evidence admissible to prove forgery or possession of forged instrument.
  (1) In any prosecution for forgery of a bank bill or note or for criminal possession of a forged bank bill or note, the testimony...
• 165.030   [Amended by 1961 c.715 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.032   Criminal possession of a forgery device.
  (1) A person commits the crime of criminal possession of a forgery device if: (a) The person makes or possesses with knowledge of its character...
• 165.035   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.037   Criminal simulation.
  (1) A person commits the crime of criminal simulation if: (a) With intent to defraud, the person makes or alters any object in such a...
• 165.040   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.042   Fraudulently obtaining a signature.
  (1) A person commits the crime of fraudulently obtaining a signature if, with intent to defraud or injure another, the person obtains the signature of...
• 165.045   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.047   Unlawfully using slugs.
  (1) A person commits the crime of unlawfully using slugs if: (a) With intent to defraud the supplier of property or a service sold or...
• 165.055   Fraudulent use of a credit card.
  (1) A person commits the crime of fraudulent use of a credit card if, with intent to injure or defraud, the person uses a credit...
• 165.065   Negotiating a bad check.
  (1) A person commits the crime of negotiating a bad check if the person makes, draws or utters a check or similar sight order for...
• 165.070   Possessing fraudulent communications device.
  (1) A person commits the crime of possessing a fraudulent communications device if the person: (a) Makes, possesses, sells, gives or otherwise transfers to another,...
• 165.072   Definitions for ORS 165.072 and 165.074.
  As used in this section and ORS 165.074, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Cardholder” means a person to whom a payment card is issued...
• 165.074   Unlawful factoring of payment card transaction.
  (1) A person commits the crime of unlawful factoring of a payment card transaction if the person intentionally or knowingly: (a) Presents to or deposits...
• 165.075   Definitions.
  As used in chapter 743, Oregon Laws 1971, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Benefit” means gain or advantage to the beneficiary or to a...
• 165.080   Falsifying business records.
  (1) A person commits the crime of falsifying business records if, with intent to defraud, the person: (a) Makes or causes a false entry in...
• 165.085   Sports bribery.
  (1) A person commits the crime of sports bribery if the person: (a) Offers, confers or agrees to confer any benefit upon a sports participant...
• 165.090   Sports bribe receiving.
  (1) A person commits the crime of sports bribe receiving if: (a) As a sports participant the person solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any...
• 165.095   Misapplication of entrusted property.
  (1) A person commits the crime of misapplication of entrusted property if, with knowledge that the misapplication is unlawful and that it involves a substantial...
• 165.100   Issuing a false financial statement.
  (1) A person commits the crime of issuing a false financial statement if, with intent to defraud, the person: (a) Knowingly makes or utters a...
• 165.102   Obtaining execution of documents by deception.
  (1) A person commits the crime of obtaining execution of documents by deception if, with intent to defraud or injure another or to acquire a...
• 165.105   [Amended by 1959 c.100 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.107   Failing to maintain a metal purchase record.
  (1) A scrap metal dealer commits the offense of failing to maintain a metal purchase record if the scrap metal dealer knowingly buys or otherwise...
• 165.109   Failing to maintain a cedar purchase record.
  (1) A person commits the offense of failing to maintain a cedar purchase record if the person buys or otherwise obtains cedar products directly from...
• 165.110   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.114   Sale of educational assignments.
  (1) No person shall sell or offer to sell an assignment to another person knowing, or under the circumstances having reason to know, that the...
• 165.115   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.120   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.125   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.130   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.135   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.140   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.145   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.150   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.155   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.160   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.165   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.170   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.175   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.180   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.185   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.190   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.205   [Amended by 1971 c.290 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.210   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.215   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.220   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.225   [Amended by 1955 c.436 §1; 1959 c.508 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.230   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.235   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.240   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.245   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.250   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.255   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.260   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.265   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.270   [1957 c.369 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.280   [1961 c.318 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.285   [1969 c.290 §3; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.290   [1963 c.588 §2; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.295   [1963 c.588 §3; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.300   [1963 c.588 §4; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.305   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.310   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.315   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.320   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.325   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.330   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.335   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.340   [Amended by 1957 c.655 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.345   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.350   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.352   [1961 c.454 §75(2); repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.355   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.405   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.410   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.415   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.420   [Amended by 1961 c.261 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.425   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.430   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.435   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.440   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.445   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.450   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.455   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.460   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.465   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.475   Sending telegrams in order of receipt.
  (1) Except as provided in ORS 165.480 and in subsection (2) of this section, any telegraph company doing business in this state who fails to...
• 165.480   Telegrams having priority in time of war or crisis.
  Every telegraph company shall, on application of any officer of this state or the United States, in case of any war, insurrection, riot or other...
• 165.485   Wrongful alteration of telegraphic message.
  (1) No officer, agent, operator, clerk or employee of any telegraph company, or any other person, shall willfully alter any such message by adding thereto...
• 165.490   Use by company agent of information contained in message.
  (1) No agent, operator or employee in any telegraph office, shall in any way use or appropriate any information derived by the agent, operator or...
• 165.495   Refusing to send or deliver message or sending message out of order.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, no agent, operator or employee in any telegraph office, shall unreasonably and willfully: (a) Refuse...
• 165.505   Opening or procuring telegraphic message addressed to another; civil liability.
  (1) Any person, not connected with any telegraph office, who, without the authority or consent of the person to whom the envelope is directed, willfully...
• 165.510   Learning contents of telegraphic message sent to another; civil liability.
  (1) Any person, not connected with any telegraph company, who, by means of any machine, instrument or contrivance, or in any other manner, willfully and...
• 165.515   Bribery of telegraph company agents to disclose contents of message.
  (1) Any person who, by the payment or promise of any bribe, inducement or reward, procures or attempts to procure any telegraphic agent, operator or...
• 165.520   Opening, reading or publishing letter; federal jurisdiction.
  Any person who willfully opens or reads, or causes to be opened and read, any sealed letter not addressed to the person, without being authorized...
• 165.525   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.530   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.532   [1961 c.428 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.535   Definitions applicable to obtaining contents of communications.
  As used in ORS 41.910, 133.723, 133.724, 165.540 and 165.545: (1) “Conversation” means the transmission between two or more persons of an oral communication which...
• 165.540   Obtaining contents of communications.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in ORS 133.724 or 133.726 or subsections (2) to (7) of this section, a person may not: (a) Obtain or...
• 165.542   Reports required concerning use of electronic listening device.
  (1) Within 30 days after the use of an electronic listening device under ORS 133.726 (7) or 165.540 (5)(a), the law enforcement agency using the...
• 165.543   Interception of communications.
  (1) Except as provided in ORS 133.724 or as provided in ORS 165.540 (2)(a), any person who willfully intercepts, attempts to intercept or procures any...
• 165.545   Prohibitions not applicable to fire or police activities.
  Nothing in ORS 165.535, 165.540 and this section, shall be construed as preventing fire or police governmental entities from recording, replaying or broadcasting telecommunication or...
• 165.549   Prevention of telephone communications when hostage taken; duties of telephone company; defense against liability.
  (1) A supervising law enforcement official having jurisdiction in a geographical area in which the official has probable cause to believe that a hostage is...
• 165.550   [1967 c.109 §§1,2; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.555   Unlawful telephone solicitation of contributions for charitable purposes.
  (1) No person shall solicit by telephone contributions of money or any other thing of value, whether or not in exchange for a ticket or...
• 165.560   Application of ORS 165.555.
  ORS 165.555 does not apply to solicitations on behalf of hospitals or of nonprofit organizations organized and operated exclusively for religious, scientific, literary or educational...
• 165.565   Optional local ordinances; certain existing local ordinances preserved.
  A city or county may enact ordinances which are more strict than ORS 165.555 to 165.565. ORS 165.555 to 165.565 do not affect any ordinances...
• 165.570   Improper use of emergency reporting system.
  (1) A person commits the crime of improper use of an emergency reporting system if the person knowingly: (a) Calls a 9-1-1 emergency reporting system...
• 165.572   Interference with making a report.
  (1) A person commits the crime of interference with making a report if the person, by removing, damaging or interfering with a telephone line, telephone...
• 165.575   Definitions.
  As used in ORS 165.575 to 165.583: (1) “Cellular telephone” means a radio telecommunications device that may be used to obtain access to the public...
• 165.577   Cellular counterfeiting in the third degree.
  (1) A person commits the crime of cellular counterfeiting in the third degree if the person knowingly possesses a cloned cellular telephone and knows that...
• 165.579   Cellular counterfeiting in the second degree.
  (1) A person commits the crime of cellular counterfeiting in the second degree if the person knowingly possesses, and knows the unlawful nature of using,...
• 165.581   Cellular counterfeiting in the first degree.
  (1) A person commits the crime of cellular counterfeiting in the first degree if the person knowingly possesses or distributes, and knows the unlawful nature...
• 165.583   Exemptions from ORS 165.577, 165.579 and 165.581.
  The provisions of ORS 165.577, 165.579 and 165.581 do not apply to: (1) Officers, employees or agents of cellular telephone service providers who engage in...
• 165.585  
  [1995 c.524 §§6,7; repealed by 2001 c.666 §56]
• 165.586   [2001 c.666 §51; repealed by 2005 c.830 §48]
• 165.605   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.610   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.615   [Amended by 1965 c.454 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.620   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.625   [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.655   [Formerly 74.500; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.657   Definitions for ORS 165.659 to 165.669.
  As used in ORS 165.659 to 165.669, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Electronic communication” has the meaning given in ORS 133.721. (2) “Pen register”...
• 165.659   General prohibition.
  Except as provided in ORS 133.545, 133.575, 133.595, 133.617, 133.619, 133.721, 133.724, 133.729, 133.731, 133.735, 133.737, 133.739, 165.540 and 165.657 to 165.673, no person may...
• 165.660   [Formerly 74.510; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.661   When provider of communication service may use devices.
  The provider of electronic or wire communication service may use a pen register or a trap and trace device: (1) In the operation, maintenance and...
• 165.663   Use by police; application to court; statement required.
  Any police officer may apply to the circuit court in which judicial district the targeted telephone is located for an ex parte order or extension...
• 165.665   [Formerly 74.520; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.667   Order by court; findings; contents of order.
  (1) Upon application made under ORS 133.545, the court shall enter an ex parte order authorizing the installation and use of a pen register or...
• 165.669   Duties imposed upon certain persons upon service of order authorizing installation of pen register or trap and trace device; compensation to persons; immunity.
  (1) Upon service of an order issued under ORS 133.545, 133.575, 133.595, 133.617, 133.619, 133.721, 133.724, 133.729, 133.731, 133.735, 133.737, 133.739, 165.540 and 165.657 to...
• 165.670   [Formerly 74.530; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.671   Defense to civil or criminal action.
  A good faith reliance on a court order, a legislative authorization or a statutory authorization is a complete defense against any civil or criminal action...
• 165.673   Disclosure of results prohibited; exception.
  No law enforcement agency shall disclose lists of telephone numbers produced by a pen register or trap and trace device except in the performance of...
• 165.675   [Formerly 74.540; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.680   [Formerly 74.550; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
• 165.690   Definitions.
  As used in ORS 165.690, 165.692 and 165.694: (1) “Claim for health care payment” means any request or demand for a health care payment, whether...
• 165.692   Making false claim for health care payment.
  A person commits the crime of making a false claim for health care payment when the person: (1) Knowingly makes or causes to be made...
• 165.694   Aggregation of claims.
  (1) Single acts of making a false claim for health care payment may be added together into aggregated counts of making false claims for health...
• 165.696   Who may commence prosecution.
  The district attorney or the Attorney General may commence a prosecution under ORS 165.692. [1995 c.496 §6]
• 165.698   Notice of conviction.
  The prosecuting attorney shall notify the Department of Human Services and any appropriate licensing boards of the conviction of a person under ORS 165.692. [1995...
• 165.800   Identity theft.
  (1) A person commits the crime of identity theft if the person, with the intent to deceive or to defraud, obtains, possesses, transfers, creates, utters...
• 165.803   Aggravated identity theft.
  (1) A person commits the crime of aggravated identity theft if: (a) The person violates ORS 165.800 in 10 or more separate incidents within a...
• 165.805   Misrepresentation of age by a minor.
  (1) A person commits the crime of misrepresentation of age by a minor if: (a) Being less than a certain, specified age, the person knowingly...
• 165.810   Unlawful possession of a personal identification device.
  (1) A person commits the crime of unlawful possession of a personal identification device if the person possesses a personal identification device with the intent...
• 165.813   Unlawful possession of fictitious identification.
  (1) A person commits the crime of unlawful possession of fictitious identification if the person possesses a personal identification card containing identification information for a...
• 165.825   Sale of drugged horse.
  (1) No person shall sell or offer for sale any horse that is drugged, tranquilized or otherwise sedated without the consent of the buyer. (2)...
• 165.840   Meaning of “telegraphic copy” in ORS 165.845 and 165.850.
  As used in ORS 165.845 and 165.850, “telegraphic copy” means any copy of a message made or prepared for delivery at the office to which...
• 165.845   Making and drawing of checks and notes by wire.
  (1) Checks, due bills, promissory notes, bills of exchange and all orders or agreements for the payment or delivery of money or other thing of...
• 165.850   Manner of expressing private and official seals in telegrams.
  Whenever any document to be sent by telegraph bears a seal, either private or official, it is not necessary for the operator to telegraph a...
• 165.990   Penalties.
  (1) Any officer, agent, operator or employee of any telegraph company who refuses or willfully omits to transmit communications in accordance with ORS 165.480, or...

Last modified: August 7, 2008