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ORS 167.060 — Definitions for ORS 167.060 to 167.095

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ORS 167.060 — Definitions for ORS 167.060 to 167.095

167.060 Definitions for ORS 167.060 to 167.095. As used in ORS 167.060 to 167.095, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Advertising purposes” means purposes of propagandizing in connection with the commercial sale of a product or type of product, the commercial offering of a service, or the commercial exhibition of an entertainment. (2) “Displays publicly” means the exposing, placing, posting, exhibiting, or in any fashion displaying in any location, whether public or private, an item in such a manner that it may be readily seen and its content or character distinguished by normal unaided vision viewing it from a public thoroughfare, depot or vehicle. (3) “Furnishes” means to sell, give, rent, loan or otherwise provide. (4) “Minor” means an unmarried person under 18 years of age. (5) “Nudity” means uncovered, or less than opaquely covered, post-pubertal human genitals, pubic areas, the post-pubertal human female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola, or the covered human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state. For purposes of this definition, a female breast is considered uncovered if the nipple only or the nipple and areola only are covered. (6) “Obscene performance” means a play, motion picture, dance, show or other presentation, whether pictured, animated or live, performed before an audience and which in whole or in part depicts or reveals nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement or sadomasochistic abuse, or which includes obscenities or explicit verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual conduct. (7) “Obscenities” means those slang words currently generally rejected for regular use in mixed society, that are used to refer to genitals, female breasts, sexual conduct or excretory functions or products, either that h

Source: Oregon Legislature — ORS 2025 Edition, Chapter 167 · ORS 167.060

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Chapter 167 — Offenses Against General Welfare and Animals 2025 EDITION GENERAL WELFARE AND ANIMAL OFFENSES CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS PROSTITUTION AND RELATED OFFENSES OBSCENITY AND RELATED OFFENSES GAMBLING OFFENSES OFFENSES INVOLVING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES OFFENSES AGAINST ANIMALS OFFENSES INVOLVING FIGHTING BIRDS OFFENSES INVOLVING UNUSED PROPERTY MARKETS OFFENSES INVOLVING TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND INHALANT DELIVERY SYSTEMS MISCELLANEOUS PROSTITUTION AND RELATED OFFENSES
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167.060 Definitions for ORS 167.060 to 167.095. As used in ORS 167.060 to 167.095, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Advertising purposes” means purposes of propagandizing in connection with the commercial sale of a product or type of product, the commercial offering of a service, or the commercial exhibition of an entertainment. (2) “Displays publicly” means the exposing, placing, posting, exhibiting, or in any fashion displaying in any location, whether public or private, an item in such a manner that it may be readily seen and its content or character distinguished by normal unaided vision viewing it from a public thoroughfare, depot or vehicle. (3) “Furnishes” means to sell, give, rent, loan or otherwise provide. (4) “Minor” means an unmarried person under 18 years of age. (5) “Nudity” means uncovered, or less than opaquely covered, post-pubertal human genitals, pubic areas, the post-pubertal human female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola, or the covered human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state. For purposes of this definition, a female breast is considered uncovered if the nipple only or the nipple and areola only are covered. (6) “Obscene performance” means a play, motion picture, dance, show or other presentation, whether pictured, animated or live, performed before an audience and which in whole or in part depicts or reveals nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement or sadomasochistic abuse, or which includes obscenities or explicit verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual conduct. (7) “Obscenities” means those slang words currently generally rejected for regular use in mixed society, that are used to refer to genitals, female breasts, sexual conduct or excretory functions or products, either that have no other meaning or that in context are clearly used for their bodily, sexual or excretory meaning. (8) “Public thoroughfare, depot or vehicle” means any street, highway, park, depot or transportation platform, or other place, whether indoors or out, or any vehicle for public transportation, owned or operated by government, either directly or through a public corporation or authority, or owned or operated by any agency of public transportation that is designed for the use, enjoyment or transportation of the general public. (9) “Sadomasochistic abuse” means flagellation or torture by or upon a person who is nude or clad in undergarments or in revealing or bizarre costume, or the condition of being fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained on the part of one so clothed. (10) “Sexual conduct” means human masturbation, sexual intercourse, or any touching of the genitals, pubic areas or buttocks of the human male or female, or the breasts of the female, whether alone or between members of the same or opposite sex or between humans and animals in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gratification. (11) “Sexual excitement” means the condition of human male or female genitals or the breasts of the female when in a state of sexual stimulation, or the sensual experiences of humans engaging in or witnessing sexual conduct or nudity. [1971 c.743 §255]

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ORS 163.575 — Endangering the welfare of a minor

163.575 Endangering the welfare of a minor. (1) A person commits the offense of endangering the welfare of a minor if the person knowingly: (a) Induces, causes or permits an unmarried person under 18 years of age to witness an act of sexual conduct or sadomasochistic abuse as defined in ORS 167.060; (b) Permits a person under 18 years of age to enter or remain in a place where unlawful activity involving controlled substances or cannabis is maintained or conducted; (c) Induces, causes or permits a person under 18 years of age to participate in gambling as defined in ORS 167.117; or (d) Sells to a person under 18 years of age any device in which cannabis, cocaine or any controlled substance, as defined in ORS 475.005, is burned and the principal design and use of which is directly or indirectly to deliver cannabis smoke, cocaine smoke or smoke from any controlled substance into the human body, including but not limited to: (A) Pipes, water pipes, hookahs, wooden pipes, carburetor pipes, electric pipes, air driven pipes, corncob pipes, meerschaum pipes and ceramic pipes, with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads or punctured metal bowls; (B) Carburetion tubes and devices, including carburetion masks; (C) Bongs; (D) Chillums; (E) Ice pipes or chillers; (F) Rolling papers and rolling machines; and (G) Cocaine free basing kits. (2) Endangering the welfare of a minor is a Class A misdemeanor. [1971 c.743 §177; 1973 c.827 §20; 1979 c.744 §8; 1981 c.838 §1; 1983 c.740 §31; 1991 c.970 §5; 1995 c.79 §52; 1999 c.1051 §153; 2011 c.597 §79; 2014 c.20 §1; 2015 c.158 §5; 2017 c.21 §45; 2017 c.701 §18]

Source: Oregon Legislature — ORS 2025 Edition, Chapter 163 · ORS 163.575

Stored review status: 2025_edition_later_amendments_unresolved. Incoming connection: Explicit ORS citation in the printed section; applicability is unreviewed.

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ORS 167.100 — Application of ORS 167.060 to 167.100

167.100 Application of ORS 167.060 to 167.100. ORS 167.060 to 167.100 shall be applicable and uniform throughout the state and all political subdivisions and municipalities therein, and no local authority shall enact any ordinances, rules or regulations in conflict with the provisions thereof. [1971 c.743 §262a]

Source: Oregon Legislature — ORS 2025 Edition, Chapter 167 · ORS 167.100

Stored review status: 2025_edition_later_amendments_unresolved. Incoming connection: Explicit ORS citation in the printed section; applicability is unreviewed.