164.889 Interference with agricultural research. (1) A person commits the crime of interference with agricultural research if the person knowingly:
(a) Damages any property at an agricultural research facility with the intent to damage or hinder agricultural research or experimentation;
(b) Obtains any property of an agricultural research facility with the intent to damage or hinder agricultural research or experimentation;
(c) Obtains access to an agricultural research facility by misrepresentation with the intent to perform acts that would damage or hinder agricultural research or experimentation;
(d) Enters an agricultural research facility with the intent to damage, alter, duplicate or obtain unauthorized possession of records, data, materials, equipment or specimens related to agricultural research or experimentation;
(e) Without the authorization of the agricultural research facility, obtains or exercises control over records, data, materials, equipment or specimens of the agricultural research facility with the intent to destroy or conceal the records, data, materials, equipment or specimens; or
(f) Releases or steals an animal from, or causes the death, injury or loss of an animal at, an agricultural research facility.
(2) Interference with agricultural research is a Class C felony.
(3) For purposes of this section:
(a) “Agricultural research facility” means any structure or land, whether privately or publicly owned, leased or operated, that is being used for agricultural research or experimentation.
(b) “Agricultural research or experimentation” means the lawful study, analysis or testing of plants or animals, or the use of plants or animals to conduct studies, analyses, testing or teaching, for the purpose of improving farming, forestry or animal hus
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164.889 Interference with agricultural research. (1) A person commits the crime of interference with agricultural research if the person knowingly:
(a) Damages any property at an agricultural research facility with the intent to damage or hinder agricultural research or experimentation;
(b) Obtains any property of an agricultural research facility with the intent to damage or hinder agricultural research or experimentation;
(c) Obtains access to an agricultural research facility by misrepresentation with the intent to perform acts that would damage or hinder agricultural research or experimentation;
(d) Enters an agricultural research facility with the intent to damage, alter, duplicate or obtain unauthorized possession of records, data, materials, equipment or specimens related to agricultural research or experimentation;
(e) Without the authorization of the agricultural research facility, obtains or exercises control over records, data, materials, equipment or specimens of the agricultural research facility with the intent to destroy or conceal the records, data, materials, equipment or specimens; or
(f) Releases or steals an animal from, or causes the death, injury or loss of an animal at, an agricultural research facility.
(2) Interference with agricultural research is a Class C felony.
(3) For purposes of this section:
(a) “Agricultural research facility” means any structure or land, whether privately or publicly owned, leased or operated, that is being used for agricultural research or experimentation.
(b) “Agricultural research or experimentation” means the lawful study, analysis or testing of plants or animals, or the use of plants or animals to conduct studies, analyses, testing or teaching, for the purpose of improving farming, forestry or animal husbandry.
(4) In addition to any other penalty imposed for violation of this section, a person convicted of interference with agricultural research is liable for:
(a) Damages to real and personal property caused by acts constituting the violation; and
(b) The costs of repeating an experiment, including the replacement of the records, data, equipment, specimens, labor and materials, if acts constituting the violation cause the failure of an experiment in progress or irreparably damage completed research or experimentation. [2001 c.147 §1]
Note: 164.889 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 164 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
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166.715 Definitions for ORS 166.715 to 166.735. As used in ORS 166.715 to 166.735, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) “Documentary material” means any book, paper, document, writing, drawing, graph, chart, photograph, phonograph record, magnetic tape, computer printout, other data compilation from which information can be obtained or from which information can be translated into usable form, or other tangible item.
(2) “Enterprise” includes any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, business trust or other profit or nonprofit legal entity, and includes any union, association or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity, and both illicit and licit enterprises and governmental and nongovernmental entities.
(3) “Investigative agency” means the Department of Justice or any district attorney.
(4) “Pattern of racketeering activity” means engaging in at least two incidents of racketeering activity that have the same or similar intents, results, accomplices, victims or methods of commission or otherwise are interrelated by distinguishing characteristics, including a nexus to the same enterprise, and are not isolated incidents, provided at least one of such incidents occurred after November 1, 1981, and that the last of such incidents occurred within five years after a prior incident of racketeering activity. Notwithstanding ORS 131.505 to 131.525 or 419A.190 or any other provision of law providing that a previous prosecution is a bar to a subsequent prosecution, conduct that constitutes an incident of racketeering activity may be used to establish a pattern of racketeering activity without regard to whether the conduct previously has been the subject of a criminal prosecution or conviction or a juvenile court adjudicatio