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2009 Oregon Code :: Chapter 165 — Offenses Involving Fraud or Deception
165.107 Metal property transaction records; prohibited conduct
165.116 Definitions for ORS 164.857 and 165.116 to 165.124
165.124 Application of ORS 164.857, 165.107, 165.116, 165.118 and 165.122
165.475 Sending telegrams in order of receipt
165.480 Telegrams having priority in time of war or crisis
165.485 Wrongful alteration of telegraphic message
165.490 Use by company agent of information contained in message
165.495 Refusing to send or deliver message or sending message out of order
165.505 Opening or procuring telegraphic message addressed to another; civil liability
165.510 Learning contents of telegraphic message sent to another; civil liability
165.515 Bribery of telegraph company agents to disclose contents of message
165.520 Opening, reading or publishing letter; federal jurisdiction
165.575 Definitions
165.690 Definitions
165.840 Meaning of “telegraphic copy” in ORS 165.845 and 165.850
165.070 Possessing fraudulent communications device.(1) A person commits the crime of possessing a fraudulent communications device if the person:
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 substantial benefit, the person obtains by means of fraud, deceit or subterfuge the execution of a written instrument affecting or purporting to affect the pecuniary interest of any person.
165.107 Metal property transaction records; prohibited conduct. (1) Before completing a transaction, a scrap metal business engaged in business in this state shall:
(i) The signature of the individual with whom the scrap metal business conducts the transaction;
(ii) The time, date, location and monetary amount or other value of the transaction;
(iii) The name of the employee who conducts the transaction on behalf of the scrap metal business;
(iv) The name, street address and telephone number of the individual with whom the scrap metal business conducts the transaction;
(v) A description of, and the license number and issuing state shown on the license plate affixed to, the motor vehicle, if any, used to transport the individual who conducts, or the nonferrous metal property or private metal property that is the subject of, the transaction;
(vi) A photocopy of a current, valid driver license or other government-issued photo identification belonging to the individual with whom the scrap metal business conducts the transaction;
(vii) A photograph of, or video surveillance recording depicting, a recognizable facial image of the individual with whom the scrap metal business conducts the transaction; and
(viii) A general description of the nonferrous metal property or private metal property that constitutes the predominant part of the transaction. The description must include any identifiable marks on the property, if readily discernible, and must specify the weight, quantity or volume of the nonferrous metal property or private metal property and indicate the appropriate classification code from the current edition of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries’ Scrap Specifications Circular, or successor publication, for each separately classifiable component of the nonferrous metal property or private metal property.
(c) Conduct a transaction with an individual in which the scrap metal business pays the individual other than by mailing a nontransferable check for the amount of the transaction to the street address the individual provided under subsection (1) of this section not earlier than three business days after the date of the transaction. The check must be drawn on an account that the scrap metal business maintains with a financial institution, as defined in ORS 706.008.
(d) Cash a check issued in payment for a transaction or release a check issued in payment for a transaction other than as provided in paragraph (c) of this subsection. If a check is returned as undelivered or undeliverable, the scrap metal business shall retain the check until the individual with whom the scrap metal business conducted the transaction provides a valid street address for the individual. If after 30 days following the date of the transaction the individual fails to provide a valid street address, the scrap metal business may cancel the check and the individual shall forfeit to the scrap metal business the amount due as payment.
(4) A scrap metal business may require an individual from whom the business obtains metal property to provide the individual’s thumbprint to the scrap metal business.
(6)(a) A scrap metal business that violates a provision of subsections (1) to (3) of this section shall pay a fine of $1,000.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, a scrap metal business that violates a provision of subsections (1) to (3) of this section shall pay a fine of $5,000 if the scrap metal business has at least three previous convictions for violations of a provision of subsections (1) to (3) of this section.
(7) The definitions in ORS 165.116 apply to this section. [1971 c.743 §169; 1995 c.222 §1; 2007 c.475 §1; 2009 c.811 §6]
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 any person who has harvested the cedar without keeping a record of the products purchased or obtained.
165.116 Definitions for ORS 164.857 and 165.116 to 165.124. As used in ORS 164.857 and 165.116 to 165.124:
(3) “Commercial seller” means a business entity, as defined in ORS 60.470, or governmental entity that regularly or periodically sells or delivers metal property to a scrap metal business as part of the entity’s business functions.
(4) “Metal property” means commercial metal property, nonferrous metal property or private metal property.
(5)(a) “Nonferrous metal property” means an item fabricated or containing parts made of or in an alloy with copper, brass, aluminum, bronze, lead, zinc or nickel.
(6) “Private metal property” means a catalytic converter that has been removed from a vehicle and is offered for sale as an independent item, whether individually or as part of a bundle, bale or in other bulk form.
(7)(a) “Scrap metal business” means a person that is licensed to do business in this state or another state and that:
(8)(a) “Transaction” means a sale, purchase, receipt or trade of, or a contract, agreement or pledge to sell, purchase, receive or trade, private metal property or nonferrous metal property that occurs or forms between an individual and a scrap metal business.
(ii) A scrap metal business or an authorized employee or agent of the scrap metal business. [2009 c.811 §1]
(a) Knowingly makes, causes or allows to be made a false entry or misstatement of material fact in a metal property record described in ORS 165.107; or
(b) Signs a declaration under ORS 165.107 knowing that the nonferrous metal property or private metal property that is the subject of a transaction is stolen.
(3) A scrap metal business or an agent or employee of a scrap metal business commits the offense of unlawfully purchasing or receiving metal property if the scrap metal business or agent or employee fails to report any of the following to a law enforcement agency within 24 hours:
(b) The purchase or receipt of metal property that the person knows or reasonably suspects has been unlawfully altered as described in subsection (1) of this section.
(d) The purchase or receipt of commercial metal property from a person other than:
(e) The purchase or receipt of metal property from an individual whom the scrap metal business knows or reasonably suspects:
(4) Violation of a provision of subsections (1) to (3) of this section is a Class A misdemeanor. [2009 c.811 §2]
165.122 Compliance with subpoena for information related to metal transaction; lost or stolen metal property. (1) Not later than two business days after receiving from a peace officer or law enforcement agency a subpoena for information related to a named or specified individual, vehicle or item of metal property, a scrap metal business shall provide to the peace officer or law enforcement agency a copy of a metal property record created under ORS 165.107 or a copy of the relevant portion of a commercial account that contains the information about the individual, vehicle or item of metal property that is the subject of the subpoena. The scrap metal business shall provide the information in any form or by any method reasonably required by the peace officer or law enforcement agency.
(2) If a scrap metal business has good cause to believe that metal property that the scrap metal business purchased or received or possesses or controls was lost by or stolen from the metal property’s owner or lawful possessor, the scrap metal business shall promptly notify an appropriate law enforcement agency and shall:
(b) Determine that the metal property is not lost or stolen and notify the scrap metal business that it is not necessary to hold the metal property any longer. [2009 c.811 §4]
165.124 Application of ORS 164.857, 165.107, 165.116, 165.118 and 165.122. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, ORS 164.857, 165.107, 165.116, 165.118 and 165.122 do not apply to:
(2) A person described in subsection (1)(c) to (e) of this section shall comply with and is subject to the penalty provided for violating a provision of ORS 164.857, 165.107, 165.116, 165.118 or 165.122, if the person purchases, receives or transports:
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 transmit all dispatches in the order in which they are received, is subject to a penalty of $100, to be recovered with costs of suit by the person whose dispatch is postponed out of its order.
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 civil commotion, or resistance of public authority, or for the prevention and punishment of crime, or for the arrest of persons suspected or charged therewith, give to the communications of such officers, immediate dispatch, at the price of ordinary communications of the same length. [Formerly 757.611]
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 or omitting therefrom any words or figures, so as to materially change the sense, purport or meaning of such message, to the injury of the person sending or desiring to send the message, or to whom it was directed.
(3) Any person violating this section, in addition to the penalty prescribed in ORS 165.990 (1) to (3) is liable in a civil suit for all damages occasioned thereby. [Formerly 757.616]
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 employee from any private message passing through the hands of the agent, operator or employee and addressed to any other person, or in any other manner acquired by the agent, operator or employee by reason of trust as such agent, operator or employee, or trade or speculate upon any such information so obtained, or in any manner turn or attempt to turn the same to the account, profit or advantage of the agent, operator or employee.
(2) Any person violating this section, in addition to the penalty prescribed in ORS 165.990 (1) to (3), is liable in treble damages to the party aggrieved, for all loss or injury sustained by reason of such wrongful act. [Formerly 757.621]
165.495 Refusing to send or deliver message or sending message out of order. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, an agent, operator or employee in any telegraph office may not unreasonably and willfully:
(a) Refuse or neglect to send any message received at the office for transmission;
(a) Any message to be received, transmitted or delivered, unless the charges thereon have been paid or tendered; or
(b) The sending, receiving or delivery of any message counseling, aiding, abetting or encouraging treason against the Government of the United States or of this state, or other resistance to the lawful authority, or any message calculated to further any fraudulent plan or purpose, or to instigate or encourage the perpetration of any unlawful act, or to facilitate the escape of any criminal or person accused of crime. [Formerly 757.626; 2009 c.11 §13]
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 or unlawfully opens any sealed envelope enclosing a telegraphic message and addressed to any other person, with the intent to learn the contents of the message, or who fraudulently represents any other person, and thereby procures to be delivered to the person any telegraphic message, addressed to such other person, with the intent to use, destroy or detain the message from the person entitled to receive it, shall be punished upon conviction by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both.
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 fraudulently reads or attempts to read any message, or to learn its contents, while it is being sent over any telegraph line, or who willfully and fraudulently or clandestinely learns or attempts to learn the contents or meaning of any message, while it is in, or being received at, any telegraph office, or is sent therefrom, or who uses or attempts to use, or communicates to others any information so obtained by any person, shall be punished upon conviction by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both.
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 employee to disclose any private message, or the contents, purport, substance of meaning thereof, or who offers to any such person any bribe, compensation or reward for the disclosure of any private information received by such person by reason of trust, or who uses or attempts to use information so obtained, shall be punished upon conviction by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both.
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 so to do either by the writer of such letter or by the person to whom it is addressed, or who willfully, without like authority, publishes any letter or portion thereof knowing it to have been so opened, shall be punished upon conviction by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than one month nor more than one year, or by fine not less than $50 nor more than $500. This section does not extend to or include any act made punishable by the laws of the United States.
(2) “Person” means any person as defined in ORS 174.100 and includes public officials and law enforcement officers of the state, county, municipal corporation or any other political subdivision of the state.
(4) “Telecommunication” means the transmission of writing, signs, signals, pictures and sounds of all kinds by aid of wire, cable or other similar connection between the points of origin and reception of such transmission, including all instrumentalities, facilities, equipment and services (including, among other things, the receipt, forwarding and delivering of communications) incidental to such transmission. [1955 c.675 §1; 1959 c.681 §1; 1983 c.740 §34]
(b) A person who, pursuant to ORS 133.400, records an interview conducted by a peace officer in a law enforcement facility;
(d) A law enforcement officer who, acting in the officer’s official capacity, deploys an Electro-Muscular Disruption Technology device that contains a built-in monitoring system capable of recording audio or video, for the duration of that deployment.
(b) “Law enforcement officer” has the meaning given that term in ORS 133.726. [1955 c.675 §§2,7; 1959 c.681 §2; 1961 c.460 §1; 1979 c.744 §9; 1983 c.693 §1; 1983 c.740 §35; 1983 c.824 §1; 1987 c.320 §87; 1989 c.983 §14a; 1989 c.1078 §1; 2001 c.104 §54; 2001 c.385 §4; 2003 c.14 §62; 2007 c.879 §1; 2009 c.488 §2]
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) “9-1-1 emergency reporting system” has the meaning given that term in ORS 403.105.
(b) “School Safety Hotline” means the toll-free telephone line established under ORS 180.650.
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 or similar communication equipment, intentionally prevents or hinders another person from making a report to a law enforcement agency, a law enforcement official, an agency charged with the duty of taking public safety reports or a 9-1-1 emergency reporting system.
165.575 Definitions. As used in ORS 165.575 to 165.583:
(b) A crime punishable as a felony under ORS 475.840, 475.846 to 475.894 or 475.906;
165.690 Definitions. As used in ORS 165.690, 165.692 and 165.694:
(3) In addition to and not in lieu of any other penalty established by law, a person who, using a driver permit or license or other identification issued by the Department of Transportation of this state or its equivalent in another state, commits the crime of misrepresentation of age by a minor in order to purchase or consume alcoholic liquor may be required to perform community service and the court shall order that the person’s driving privileges and right to apply for driving privileges be suspended for a period not to exceed one year. If a court has issued an order denying driving privileges under this section, the court, upon petition of the person, may withdraw the order at any time the court deems appropriate. The court notification to the department under this subsection may include a recommendation that the person be granted a hardship permit under ORS 807.240 if the person is otherwise eligible for the permit.
(5) The prohibitions of this section do not apply to a person under the age of 21 years who is acting under the direction of a licensee for the purpose of investigating possible violations by employees of the licensee of laws prohibiting sales of alcoholic beverages to persons who are under the age of 21 years. [1971 c.743 §285; 1991 c.860 §1; 1993 c.18 §25; 2001 c.791 §3]
(a) Was under 21 years of age at the time of committing the offense and the person possessed the personal identification card solely for the purpose of enabling the person to purchase alcohol; or
(b) Was under 18 years of age at the time of committing the offense and the person possessed the personal identification card solely for the purpose of enabling the person to purchase tobacco products. [2003 c.632 §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 the message may have been sent by telegraph. [Formerly 757.631]
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 value may be made or drawn by telegraph, and when so made or drawn:
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 designedly alters or falsifies such communications, is liable to indictment and, upon conviction, may be punished by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
(2) Violation of ORS 165.485 or 165.490 is punishable, upon conviction, by a fine of not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding one year, or both.
(3) Violation of ORS 165.495 is punishable, upon conviction, by a fine of not exceeding $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for not exceeding six months, or both.
(4)(a) Violation of ORS 165.692 is a Class C felony punishable as provided in ORS chapter 161.
(b) Criminal prosecution of violators of ORS 165.692 shall be commenced within five years after the commission of the crime. [Formerly 757.992; subsection (4) of 1995 Edition enacted as 1995 c.496 §4]