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.
(2) The record required by subsection (1) of this section shall be retained by the purchaser for a period of not less than one year and shall be available to any peace officer on demand.
The record shall contain:
(a) The name, address, date of sale and signature of the seller or the person making delivery;
(b) The license number of any motor vehicles used in the delivery of the cedar; and
(c) The quantity of cedar obtained and the amount paid for the cedar.
(3) The provisions of this section apply only to the first wholesale transaction involving cedar products and do not apply to retail sales of cedar.
(4) Failing to maintain a cedar purchase record is a Class B misdemeanor. [1977 c.473 §2]
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Chapter 165 — Offenses Involving Fraud or Deception
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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.
(2) The record required by subsection (1) of this section shall be retained by the purchaser for a period of not less than one year and shall be available to any peace officer on demand.
The record shall contain:
(a) The name, address, date of sale and signature of the seller or the person making delivery;
(b) The license number of any motor vehicles used in the delivery of the cedar; and
(c) The quantity of cedar obtained and the amount paid for the cedar.
(3) The provisions of this section apply only to the first wholesale transaction involving cedar products and do not apply to retail sales of cedar.
(4) Failing to maintain a cedar purchase record is a Class B misdemeanor. [1977 c.473 §2]
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Oregon criminal law — ORS Title 16 (2025 snapshot) · legal_authorities
164.813 Unlawful cutting and transport of special forest products. (1) As used in this section:
(a) “Harvest” means to separate by cutting, digging, prying, picking, peeling, breaking, pulling, splitting or otherwise removing a special forest product from:
(A) Its physical connection or point of contact with the ground or vegetation upon which it was growing; or
(B) The place or position where it lay.
(b) “Special forest products” means:
(A) Plants, plant parts, fruit, fungi, parts of fungi, rocks or minerals that are identified in State Board of Forestry rules as special forest products;
(B) Firewood;
(C) Trees or parts of trees of a species identified in board rules as a forest tree species not normally used in commercial forest harvests; and
(D) Other items identified by the board by rule as special forest products.
(c) “Special forest products” does not mean mill ends, driftwood and artificially fabricated fireplace logs.
(d) “Transportation” means the physical conveyance of special forest products away from a harvest or collection site and includes, but is not limited to, transportation in or on:
(A) A motor vehicle or trailer, both as defined for purposes of the Oregon Vehicle Code;
(B) A boat, barge, raft or other water vessel; or
(C) An airplane, helicopter, balloon or other aircraft.
(2) Subject to subsection (6) of this section, it is unlawful for any person other than the landowner to cut or split wood into special forest products or to harvest or remove special forest products from a place unless the person has in possession a written permit to do so from the owner of the land from which the wood is cut or the special forest products taken. The written permit required under this subsection must set forth:
(a) The date of the permit;
(b) The n