Oregon Statutes - Chapter 810 - Road Authorities; Courts; Police; Other Enforcement Officials

• 810.010   Jurisdiction over highways; exception.
  This section designates the bodies responsible for exercising jurisdiction over certain highways when the vehicle code requires the exercise of jurisdiction by the road authority....
• 810.012   Jurisdiction over access to facilities and services from certain roads; rules.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of the Oregon Vehicle Code, the Oregon Transportation Commission, by rule, may establish procedures for, and certify to the Federal Highway...
• 810.020   Regulating use of throughway.
  (1) Each road authority may prohibit or restrict the use of a throughway in its jurisdiction by any of the following: (a) Parades. (b) Bicycles...
• 810.030   Imposition of restrictions on highway use; grounds; procedure; penalties.
  (1) A road authority may impose restrictions described under this section on its own highways as the road authority determines necessary to do any of...
• 810.040   Designation of truck routes; limitations.
  Each road authority may designate any of its highways or any section of any of its highways as a truck route and may prohibit the...
• 810.050   Increase or decrease in size or weight limits on highways if federal mandate allows or requires; rules.
  (1) The Department of Transportation may authorize the movement on highways under its jurisdiction of vehicles or combinations of vehicles of a size or weight...
• 810.060   Increase in weight or size if highway found capable of supporting increase; rules.
  A road authority shall adopt a rule, resolution or ordinance to allow vehicles or combinations of vehicles with a loaded weight in excess of the...
• 810.070   Use of golf carts on highways; rules.
  A road authority, on any of its own highways that are located adjacent to a golf course, may permit the operation of golf carts between...
• 810.080   Pedestrian traffic.
  (1) Road authorities may regulate the movement of pedestrians upon highways within their jurisdictions by doing any of the following: (a) Establishing marked crosswalks and...
• 810.090   Bicycle racing.
  Bicycle racing is permitted on any highway in this state upon the approval of, and under conditions imposed by, the road authority for the highway...
• 810.100   Restriction of animal traffic to bridle paths.
  Each incorporated community within this state has power, by law or ordinance duly enacted, to regulate the use of its streets by horses and other...
• 810.110   Designation of through highways and stop intersections.
  (1) Each road authority may do any of the following on its own highways: (a) Designate a main traveled or through highway by placing traffic...
• 810.120   Designation of no passing zones.
  (1) Each road authority may do the following on its own highways: (a) Determine where overtaking or passing or driving to the left of the...
• 810.130   One-way highways; safety zones; turns.
  The Oregon Transportation Commission shall act as road authority under this section in lieu of the Department of Transportation. Each road authority may do any...
• 810.140   Designation of exclusive use lanes.
  (1) Any road authority may designate lanes on its own highways that are to be used exclusively by buses or high occupancy-use passenger vehicles for...
• 810.150   Drain construction; compliance with bicycle safety requirements; guidelines.
  (1) Street drains, sewer drains, storm drains and other similar openings in a roadbed over which traffic must pass that are in any portion of...
• 810.160   Controlling parking on highways; limitations.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, each road authority has exclusive authority to regulate, control or prohibit the stopping, standing and parking of vehicles...
• 810.170   Winter recreation parking locations; plowing; priorities; enforcement.
  (1) The Oregon Transportation Commission shall designate winter recreation parking locations throughout this state where parking is prohibited under ORS 811.590 except for vehicles exempted...
• 810.180   Designation of maximum speeds; rules.
  (1) As used in this section: (a) “Designated speed” means the speed that is designated by a road authority as the maximum permissible speed for...
• 810.190   [1983 c.338 §163; 1985 c.16 §52; repealed by 1993 c.742 §117]
• 810.200   Uniform standards for traffic control devices; uniform system of marking and signing highways.
  (1) The Oregon Transportation Commission may exercise the following authority with respect to the marking, signing and use of traffic control devices in this state:...
• 810.210   Placement and control of traffic control devices.
  (1) The Oregon Transportation Commission is vested with exclusive jurisdiction over the installation at railroad-highway grade crossings of signs, signals, gates, protective devices or any...
• 810.212   Requirements for certain speed limit signs.
  Any sign that is posted on a highway in this state that expresses a speed limit in kilometers per hour shall also show the speed...
• 810.214   Signs prohibiting unmuffled engine brakes.
  (1) The Oregon Transportation Commission shall adopt uniform standards for posting signs prohibiting the use of unmuffled engine brakes as described in ORS 811.492. (2)...
• 810.220   Exemption from traffic control device specifications.
  Official traffic control devices placed or constructed by road authorities before June 27, 1975, are not required to conform to specifications and location criteria approved...
• 810.230   Unlawful sign display; exceptions; penalty.
  (1) A person commits the offense of unlawful sign display if the person does any of the following: (a) Without authority under ORS 810.200 or...
• 810.240   Unlawful interference with traffic control device or railroad sign; penalty.
  (1) A person commits the offense of unlawful interference with a traffic control device or railroad sign if the person, without lawful authority and with...
• 810.245   Signs giving notice of consequences of traffic offenses committed in school zones.
  A road authority may post signs designed to give motorists notice of the provisions of ORS 811.235. The road authority may also develop procedures that...
• 810.250   Use of traffic control device placement or legibility as evidence.
  (1) A person shall not be convicted of violating a provision of the vehicle code for which an official traffic control device is required if...
• 810.260   Standards for installation, operation and use of traffic control signal operating devices; rules.
  (1) The Department of Transportation shall adopt standards for the installation, operation and use of traffic control signal operating devices authorized under ORS 815.445. In...
• 810.300   Security for appearance on traffic crime.
  (1) A court, including a magistrate or clerk or deputy clerk authorized by the magistrate, shall release a person brought before it if the person...
• 810.310   Use of license as security deposit.
  The current valid license of a person that is issued by this state is acceptable, when authorized under ORS 810.300, as a security deposit for...
• 810.320   Use of guaranteed arrest bond certificate as security deposit.
  The unexpired guaranteed arrest bond certificate, as defined in ORS 742.372, of a member of an automobile club or automobile association is acceptable, when authorized...
• 810.330   Use of automobile membership card as security deposit.
  The unexpired membership card of any member of an automobile association is acceptable as a security deposit for that member as provided under this section....
• 810.340   Proceedings; jurisdiction of financial responsibility requirements and suspension.
  (1) All proceedings concerning traffic offenses shall conform to the provisions of the vehicle code and those provisions of ORS chapter 153 relating to traffic...
• 810.350   Procedures for overloading and certain other violations.
  (1) For offenses described in this section, a court or judicial officer: (a) Shall make the owner or lessee of the vehicle a codefendant if...
• 810.360   [1983 c.338 §383; repealed by 1999 c.1051 §32]
• 810.365   Failure to appear on certain parking offenses.
  If a vehicle owner cited under ORS 810.425 to appear in a circuit or justice court upon an alleged parking offense fails to appear on...
• 810.370   Court to forward traffic conviction records to department; exceptions.
  (1) Within the time required by this section of the conviction, every court with jurisdiction over the offenses described in this section shall forward to...
• 810.375   Duties of judges or court clerks.
  (1) The judge or clerk of every court of this state having jurisdiction of any traffic offense, including all local and municipal judicial officers in...
• 810.380   [1985 c.744 §3; 1987 c.730 §19; 1987 c.904 §2; repealed by 1987 c.905 §37]
• 810.400   Uniform or badge required.
  Any police officer attempting to enforce the traffic laws of this state shall be in uniform or shall conspicuously display an official identification card showing...
• 810.410   Arrest and citation.
  (1) A police officer may arrest or issue a citation to a person for a traffic crime at any place within or outside the jurisdictional...
• 810.415   Removal of vehicles, cargo or debris from roadway after accident.
  A law enforcement officer who comes to the scene of an accident described in ORS 811.700 may remove or direct the driver of a vehicle...
• 810.420   Use of speed measuring device; citation; training.
  (1) When the speed of a vehicle has been checked by a speed measuring device, the driver of the vehicle may be stopped, detained and...
• 810.425   Procedure in certain parking cases.
  (1) In all prosecutions of the owner of a vehicle for violation of ORS 811.555 (1)(b), 811.570 (1)(b), 811.575 (1)(b) and 811.585 (1)(b), of any...
• 810.430   Movement of illegally parked vehicles.
  A police officer who finds a vehicle parked or standing upon a highway in violation of ORS 811.555 or 811.570 may move the vehicle, cause...
• 810.434   Photo red light; operation; evaluation.
  (1) Any city may, at its own cost, operate cameras designed to photograph drivers who violate ORS 811.265 by failing to obey a traffic control...
• 810.435   Use of photographs.
  Photographs taken under ORS 810.434 may be submitted into evidence in a trial, administrative proceeding or other judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding only for the purpose...
• 810.436   Citations based on photo red light; response to citation.
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a city chooses to operate a camera that complies with this section and ORS 810.434, a citation...
• 810.438   Photo radar authorized; evaluation.
  (1) The following jurisdictions may, at their own cost, operate photo radar: (a) Albany. (b) Beaverton. (c) Bend. (d) Eugene. (e) Gladstone. (f) Medford. (g)...
• 810.439   Citations based on photo radar; response to citation.
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the jurisdictions using photo radar: (a) A citation for speeding may be issued on the basis of...
• 810.440   Security for appearance of person arrested for traffic crime.
  A police officer may take security for the appearance of a person arrested for a traffic crime if it appears to the officer that the...
• 810.450   Security for appearance of person issued citation.
  A police officer who issues a citation for violation of an offense described in this section may accept security for the appearance of the person...
• 810.460   Officer’s accident report; use.
  (1) A police officer shall submit a report to the Department of Transportation whenever the officer does any of the following: (a) Investigates a vehicle...
• 810.470   [1983 c.338 §407; 1993 c.224 §5; 1993 c.751 §64; 1997 c.678 §13; repealed by 2005 c.195 §3]
• 810.480   Inspections involving vehicle dealers and dismantlers.
  (1) A police officer, during normal business hours, may inspect the records a vehicle dealer is required to keep under ORS 822.045 and vehicles included...
• 810.490   Weighing and measuring vehicles; citation; reduction of load.
  (1) Any police officer may stop, measure and weigh any vehicle or combination of vehicles by means of either portable or stationary measures and scales,...
• 810.500   Stopping and testing vehicles for equipment violations.
  (1) A police officer may require the driver of a vehicle or combination of vehicles to stop the vehicle or combination and submit to tests...
• 810.510   State police inspection for mechanical condition and equipment.
  (1) A state police officer may require a person driving a vehicle or combination of vehicles on a street or highway to stop and submit...
• 810.520   Vehicle repair warning.
  (1) A vehicle repair warning issued under ORS 810.510 shall: (a) Be in writing; (b) Require that the vehicle be placed in a safe condition...
• 810.530   Authority of weighmasters and motor carrier enforcement officers.
  (1) A weighmaster or motor carrier enforcement officer in whose presence an offense described in this subsection is committed may arrest or issue a citation...
• 810.540   Enforcement of snowmobile and all-terrain vehicles violations by persons other than police officers.
  Game wardens and all other state law enforcement officers within their respective jurisdictions shall enforce the provisions relating to snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles under ORS...
• 810.550   Authority of railroad officers to move illegally parked vehicles.
  When a regularly employed officer of a railroad commissioned to act as a police officer by the Governor under ORS 131.880 finds a vehicle parked...
• 810.560   Certification and training of commercial vehicle inspectors.
  Before an enforcement official may conduct inspections of commercial vehicles, drivers or cargoes for purposes of enforcing rules adopted under ORS 825.252 and 825.258, the...

Last modified: August 7, 2008