ORS 163.250 — [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
163.250 [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
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ORS 163.255 — [1955 c.530 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
163.255 [1955 c.530 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.257 — Custodial interference in the first degree
163.257 Custodial interference in the first degree. (1) A person commits the crime of custodial interference in the first degree if the person violates ORS 163.245 and: (a) Causes the person taken, enticed or kept from the lawful custodian or in violation of a valid joint custody order to be removed from the state; or (b) Exposes that person to a substantial risk of illness or physical injury. (2) Expenses incurred by a lawful custodial parent or a parent enforcing a valid joint custody order in locating and regaining physical custody of the person taken, enticed or kept in violation of this section are “economic damages” for purposes of r
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.260 — [Amended by 1955 c.366 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
163.260 [Amended by 1955 c.366 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
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163.261 Definitions for ORS 163.261, 163.263 and 163.264. As used in this section and ORS 163.263 and 163.264: (1) “Controlled substance” has the meaning given that term in ORS 475.005. (2) “Debt bondage” means the inducement of another person to provide labor or services in payment toward or satisfaction of a real or purported debt if: (a) The reasonable value of the labor or services is not applied toward the repayment of the debt; or (b) The length of the labor or services is unlimited and the nature of the labor or services is not defined. (3) “Services” means activities performed by one person under the supervision or for the benefi
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.263 — Subjecting another person to involuntary servitude in the second degree
163.263 Subjecting another person to involuntary servitude in the second degree. (1) A person commits the crime of subjecting another person to involuntary servitude in the second degree if the person knowingly and without lawful authority forces or attempts to force the other person to engage in or continue to engage in services by: (a) Abusing or threatening to abuse the law or legal process; (b) Destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating or possessing an actual or purported passport or immigration document or another actual or purported government identification document of a person; (c) Threatening to report a person to a governmen
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.264 — Subjecting another person to involuntary servitude in the first degree
163.264 Subjecting another person to involuntary servitude in the first degree. (1) A person commits the crime of subjecting another person to involuntary servitude in the first degree if the person knowingly and without lawful authority forces or attempts to force the other person to engage in or continue to engage in services by: (a) Causing or threatening to cause the death of or serious physical injury to a person; or (b) Physically restraining or threatening to physically restrain a person. (2) When determining whether force or attempted force is present in a prosecution under this section, the finder of fact shall consider the totali
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.266 — Trafficking in persons
163.266 Trafficking in persons. (1) A person commits the crime of trafficking in persons if the person knowingly recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides or obtains by any means, or attempts to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide or obtain by any means, another person and: (a) The person knows or recklessly disregards the fact that the other person will be subjected to involuntary servitude as described in ORS 163.263 or 163.264; (b) The person knows or recklessly disregards the fact that force, fraud or coercion will be used to cause the other person to engage in a commercial sex act; or (c) The person knows or recklessly
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.269 — Defenses for victims of involuntary servitude and trafficking in persons
163.269 Defenses for victims of involuntary servitude and trafficking in persons. (1) A person who is the victim of a crime described in ORS 163.263, 163.264 or 163.266 may assert the defense of duress, as described in ORS 161.270, if the person is prosecuted for conduct that constitutes services under ORS 163.261, that the person was caused to provide. (2) In a prosecution for a crime other than a person crime based on conduct that constitutes services under ORS 163.261 that a person was caused to provide, it is an affirmative defense that the person was a human trafficking victim at the time of engaging in the conduct and engaged in the co
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.270 — [Amended by 1955 c.371 §1; 1957 c.640 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
163.270 [Amended by 1955 c.371 §1; 1957 c.640 §1; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432] COERCION
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.275 — Coercion
163.275 Coercion. (1) A person commits the crime of coercion when the person compels or induces another person to engage in conduct from which the other person has a legal right to abstain, or to abstain from engaging in conduct in which the other person has a legal right to engage, by means of instilling in the other person a fear that, if the other person refrains from the conduct compelled or induced or engages in conduct contrary to the compulsion or inducement, the actor or another will: (a) Unlawfully cause physical injury to some person; (b) Unlawfully cause physical injury to some animal; (c) Unlawfully cause damage to property; (
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.280 — [Amended by 1957 c.640 §2; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
163.280 [Amended by 1957 c.640 §2; repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.285 — Defense to coercion
163.285 Defense to coercion. In any prosecution for coercion committed by instilling in the victim a fear that the victim or another person would be charged with a crime, it is a defense that the defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge to be true and that the sole purpose of the defendant was to compel or induce the victim to take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of the threatened charge. [1971 c.743 §103]
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.290 — [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
163.290 [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
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163.300 [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432] SEXUAL OFFENSES
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163.305 Definitions. As used in chapter 743, Oregon Laws 1971, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Forcible compulsion” means to compel by: (a) Physical force; or (b) A threat, express or implied, that places a person in fear of immediate or future death or physical injury to self or another person, or in fear that the person or another person will immediately or in the future be kidnapped. (2) “Mentally incapacitated” means that a person is rendered incapable of appraising or controlling the conduct of the person at the time of the alleged offense. (3) “Oral or anal sexual intercourse” means sexual conduct between persons consis
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.310 — [Renumbered 166.180]
163.310 [Renumbered 166.180]
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.315 — Incapacity to consent; effect of lack of resistance
163.315 Incapacity to consent; effect of lack of resistance. (1) A person is considered incapable of consenting to a sexual act if the person is: (a) Under 18 years of age; (b) Incapable of appraising the nature of the person’s conduct; (c) Mentally incapacitated; or (d) Physically helpless. (2) A lack of verbal or physical resistance does not, by itself, constitute consent but may be considered by the trier of fact along with all other relevant evidence. (3) A person is incapable of appraising the nature of the person’s conduct if: (a) The person is unable to understand the nature of the conduct; (b) The person is unable to understan
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.320 — [Renumbered 166.190]
163.320 [Renumbered 166.190]
Read stored text, notes and provenance · Open official chapter ↗ORS 163.325 — Ignorance or mistake as a defense
163.325 Ignorance or mistake as a defense. (1) In any prosecution under ORS 163.355 to 163.445 in which the criminality of conduct depends on a child’s being under the age of 16, it is no defense that the defendant did not know the child’s age or that the defendant reasonably believed the child to be older than the age of 16. (2) When criminality depends on the child’s being under a specified age other than 16, it is an affirmative defense for the defendant to prove that the defendant reasonably believed the child to be above the specified age at the time of the alleged offense. (3) In any prosecution under ORS 163.355 to 163.445 in which t
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