Case Name: STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. RODNEY CLARK HANSON, Appellant
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oregon
Decision Date: 1988-12-14
Citations: 94 Or. App. 447
Docket Number: 783067; CA A48493
Parties: STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. RODNEY CLARK HANSON, Appellant.
Judges: Before Buttler, Presiding Judge, and Warren and Rossman, Judges.
Reporter: Oregon Reports, Court of Appeals
Volume: 94
Pages: 447–448

Head Matter:
Argued and submitted November 30,
reversed December 14, 1988
STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. RODNEY CLARK HANSON, Appellant.
(783067; CA A48493)
764 P2d 1383
Glenn N. Solomon, Salem, argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief was Gary D. Babcock, Public Defender, Salem.
Margaret E. Rabin, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause for respondent. With her on the brief were Dave Frohnmayer, Attorney General, and Virginia L. Linder, Solicitor General, Salem.
Before Buttler, Presiding Judge, and Warren and Rossman, Judges.
PER CURIAM

Opinion:
PER CURIAM
Defendant appeals his conviction for driving while suspended. The state concedes that the Motor Vehicles Division erroneously suspended defendant's driver's license, because the statutes that it purported to rely on (former ORS 482.440 and ORS 484.415(1)) had been repealed when MVD issued its suspension notice on February 2,1987. See Or Laws 1985, ch 16, § 3(4). The statute in effect at that time, ORS 809.300(3), did not authorize MVD to suspend defendant's license.
Because defendant's license had not been suspended validly at the time he was charged with driving while suspended, he may not be convicted of that offense.
Reversed.