163A.005 Definitions for ORS 163A.005 to 163A.235. As used in ORS 163A.005 to 163A.235:
(1) “Another United States court” means a federal court, a military court, the tribal court of a federally recognized Indian tribe or a court of:
(a) A state other than Oregon;
(b) The District of Columbia;
(c) The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;
(d) Guam;
(e) American Samoa;
(f) The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; or
(g) The United States Virgin Islands.
(2) “Attends” means is enrolled on a full-time or part-time basis.
(3)(a) “Correctional facility” means any place used for the confinement of persons:
(A) Charged with or convicted of a crime or otherwise confined under a court order.
(B) Found to be within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court for having committed an act that if committed by an adult would constitute a crime.
(b) “Correctional facility” applies to a state hospital or a secure intensive community inpatient facility only as to persons detained therein charged with or convicted of a crime, or detained therein after being found guilty except for insanity under ORS 161.290 to 161.373 or responsible except for insanity under ORS 419C.411.
(4) “Institution of higher education” means a public or private educational institution that provides a program of post-secondary education.
(5) “Sex crime” means:
(a) Rape in any degree;
(b) Sodomy in any degree;
(c) Unlawful sexual penetration in any degree;
(d) Sexual abuse in any degree;
(e) Incest with a child victim;
(f) Using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct;
(g) Encouraging child sexual abuse in any degree;
(h) Transporting child pornography into the state;
(i) Paying for viewing a child’s sexually explicit conduct;
(j) Compelling prostitution;
(k) Promoting prostitution;
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Chapter 163A — Sex Offender Reporting and Classification
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SEX OFFENDERS
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
REPORTING
CLASSIFICATION
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RECLASSIFICATION AND RELIEF FROM REPORTING
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163A.005 Definitions for ORS 163A.005 to 163A.235. As used in ORS 163A.005 to 163A.235:
(1) “Another United States court” means a federal court, a military court, the tribal court of a federally recognized Indian tribe or a court of:
(a) A state other than Oregon;
(b) The District of Columbia;
(c) The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;
(d) Guam;
(e) American Samoa;
(f) The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; or
(g) The United States Virgin Islands.
(2) “Attends” means is enrolled on a full-time or part-time basis.
(3)(a) “Correctional facility” means any place used for the confinement of persons:
(A) Charged with or convicted of a crime or otherwise confined under a court order.
(B) Found to be within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court for having committed an act that if committed by an adult would constitute a crime.
(b) “Correctional facility” applies to a state hospital or a secure intensive community inpatient facility only as to persons detained therein charged with or convicted of a crime, or detained therein after being found guilty except for insanity under ORS 161.290 to 161.373 or responsible except for insanity under ORS 419C.411.
(4) “Institution of higher education” means a public or private educational institution that provides a program of post-secondary education.
(5) “Sex crime” means:
(a) Rape in any degree;
(b) Sodomy in any degree;
(c) Unlawful sexual penetration in any degree;
(d) Sexual abuse in any degree;
(e) Incest with a child victim;
(f) Using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct;
(g) Encouraging child sexual abuse in any degree;
(h) Transporting child pornography into the state;
(i) Paying for viewing a child’s sexually explicit conduct;
(j) Compelling prostitution;
(k) Promoting prostitution;
(L) Kidnapping in the first degree if the victim was under 18 years of age;
(m) Contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor;
(n) Sexual misconduct if the offender is at least 18 years of age;
(o) Possession of materials depicting sexually explicit conduct of a child in the first degree;
(p) Kidnapping in the second degree if the victim was under 18 years of age, except by a parent or by a person found to be within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court;
(q) Online sexual corruption of a child in any degree if the offender reasonably believed the child to be more than five years younger than the offender;
(r) Luring a minor, if:
(A) The offender reasonably believed the minor or, in the case of a police officer or agent of a police officer posing as a minor, the purported minor to be more than five years younger than the offender or under 16 years of age; and
(B) The court designates in the judgment that the offense is a sex crime;
(s) Sexual assault of an animal;
(t) Public indecency or private indecency, if the person has a prior conviction for a crime listed in this subsection;
(u) Trafficking in persons as described in ORS 163.266 (1)(b) or (c);
(v) Purchasing sex with a minor if the court designates the offense as a sex crime pursuant to ORS 163.413 (3)(d), or the offense is the defendant’s second or subsequent conviction under ORS 163.413 (3)(b)(B);
(w) Invasion of personal privacy in the first degree, if the court designates the offense as a sex crime pursuant to ORS 163.701 (3);
(x) Sexual abuse by fraudulent representation;
(y) Abuse of a corpse in the first degree as described in ORS 166.087 (1)(a);
(z) Any attempt to commit any of the crimes listed in paragraphs (a) to (y) of this subsection;
(aa) Burglary, when committed with intent to commit any of the offenses listed in paragraphs (a) to (y) of this subsection; or
(bb) Criminal conspiracy if the offender agrees with one or more persons to engage in or cause the performance of an offense listed in paragraphs (a) to (y) of this subsection.
(6) “Sex offender” means a person who:
(a) Has been convicted of a sex crime;
(b) Has been found guilty except for insanity of a sex crime;
(c) Has been convicted in another United States court of a crime:
(A) That would constitute a sex crime if committed in this state; or
(B) For which the person would have to register as a sex offender in that court’s jurisdiction, or as required under federal law, regardless of whether the crime would constitute a sex crime in this state; or
(d) Is described in ORS 163A.025 (1).
(7) “Works” or “carries on a vocation” means full-time or part-time employment for more than 14 days within one calendar year whether financially compensated, volunteered or for the purpose of governmental or educational benefit. [Formerly 181.805; 2023 c.200 §4; 2024 c.63 §1]
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161.290 Incapacity due to immaturity. (1) A person who is tried as an adult in a court of criminal jurisdiction is not criminally responsible for any conduct which occurred when the person was under 12 years of age.
(2) Incapacity due to immaturity, as defined in subsection (1) of this section, is a defense. [Formerly 161.380; 1995 c.422 §58]
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 disregards the fact that the other person is under 18 years of age and will be used in a commercial sex act.
(2) A person commits the crime of trafficking in persons if the person knowingly benefits financially or receives something of value from participation in a venture that involves an act prohibited by subsection (1) of this section or ORS 163.263 or 163.264.
(3) As used in this section, “commercial sex act” means sexual conduct or sexual contact, as those terms are defined in ORS 167.002, performed in return for a fee or anything of value.
(4) Violation of subsection (1)(a) or (2) of this section is a Class B felony.
(5) Violation of subsection (1)(b) or (c) of this section is a Class A felony. [2007 c.811 §4; 2013 c.720 §1; 2017 c.395 §1; 2023 c.217 §4]
Note: See note under 163.261.
163.413 Purchasing sex with a minor. (1) A person commits the crime of purchasing sex with a minor if the person pays, or offers or agrees to pay, a fee to engage in sexual intercourse or sexual contact with a minor, a police officer posing as a minor or an agent of a police officer posing as a minor.
(2)(a) If the person does not have a prior conviction under this section at the time of the offense, purchasing sex with a minor is a Class C felony and the person may use a defense described in ORS 163.325 only if the minor or, in the case of a police officer or agent of a police officer posing as a minor, the age of the purported minor as reported to the defendant was at least 16 years of age.
(b) If the person has one or more prior convictions under this section at the time of the offense, purchasing sex with a minor is a Class B felony, the state need not prove that the person knew the minor or, in the case of a police officer or agent of a police officer posing as a minor, the purported minor was under 18 years of age and the person may not use a defense described in ORS 163.325.
(3)(a) When a person is convicted under this section, in addition to any other sentence that may be imposed, the court shall impose and may not suspend the sentence described in paragraph (b) of this subsection.
(b) The mandatory minimum sentences that apply to paragraph (a) of this subsection are as follows:
(A) For a person’s first conviction, a fine in the amount of $10,000, a term of incarceration of at least 30 days and completion of a john school program.
(B) For a person’s second or subsequent conviction, a fine in the amount of $20,000 and the court shall designate the offense as a sex crime under ORS 163A.005.
(c) Notwithstanding paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection, if t
163.701 Invasion of personal privacy in the first degree. (1) Except as provided in ORS 163.702, a person commits the crime of invasion of personal privacy in the first degree if:
(a)(A) The person knowingly makes or records a photograph, motion picture, videotape or other visual recording of another person in a state of nudity without the consent of the other person; and
(B) At the time the visual recording is made or recorded the person being recorded is in a place and circumstances where the person has a reasonable expectation of personal privacy; or
(b) The person violates ORS 163.700 and, at the time of the offense, has a prior conviction for:
(A) Invasion of personal privacy in any degree, public indecency, private indecency or a sex crime as defined in ORS 163A.005; or
(B) The statutory counterpart of an offense described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph in another jurisdiction.
(2)(a) Invasion of personal privacy in the first degree is a Class C felony.
(b) The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission shall classify invasion of personal privacy in the first degree as crime category 6 of the sentencing guidelines grid of the commission.
(3) The court may designate invasion of personal privacy in the first degree as a sex crime under ORS 163A.005 if the court finds that the circumstances of the offense require the defendant to register and report as a sex offender for the safety of the community. [2015 c.645 §2]
Note: See note under 163.700.
163A.025 Reporting by sex offender adjudicated in juvenile court. (1) A person found to be within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court under ORS 419C.005, or found by the juvenile court to be responsible except for insanity under ORS 419C.411, for having committed an act that, if committed by an adult, would constitute a felony sex crime shall report as a sex offender as described in subsections (2) to (4) of this section, unless the juvenile court enters an order under ORS 163A.130 or 163A.135 relieving the person of the obligation to report, if:
(a) The person has been ordered under ORS 163A.030 to report as a sex offender;
(b) The person was adjudicated, and the jurisdiction of the juvenile court or the Psychiatric Security Review Board over the person ended, prior to August 12, 2015;
(c) The person was adjudicated prior to August 12, 2015, and the jurisdiction of the juvenile court or the Psychiatric Security Review Board over the person ended after August 12, 2015, and before April 4, 2016; or
(d) The person has been found in a juvenile adjudication in another United States court to have committed an act while the person was under 18 years of age that would constitute a felony sex crime if committed in this state by an adult.
(2) A person described in subsection (1)(a) or (d) of this section, or a person described in subsection (1)(c) of this section who did not make an initial report prior to April 4, 2016, who resides in this state shall make an initial report, in person, to the Department of State Police, a city police department or a county sheriff’s office as follows:
(a) The person shall report no later than 10 days after the date of the court order requiring the person to report under ORS 163A.030;
(b) If the person is adjudicated for the act giving
166.087 Abuse of corpse in the first degree. (1) A person commits the crime of abuse of corpse in the first degree if the person:
(a) Engages in sexual activity with a corpse or involving a corpse; or
(b) Dismembers, mutilates, cuts or strikes a corpse.
(2) Abuse of corpse in the first degree is a Class B felony. [1993 c.294 §2]
Note: 166.087 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 166 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
162.415 Official misconduct in the first degree. (1) A public servant commits the crime of official misconduct in the first degree if:
(a) With intent to obtain a benefit or to harm another:
(A) The public servant knowingly fails to perform a duty imposed upon the public servant by law or one clearly inherent in the nature of office; or
(B) The public servant knowingly performs an act constituting an unauthorized exercise in official duties; or
(b) The public servant, while acting as a supervisory employee, violates ORS 162.405 and is aware of and consciously disregards the fact that the violation creates a risk of:
(A) Physical injury to a vulnerable person;
(B) The commission of a sex crime as defined in ORS 163A.005 against a vulnerable person; or
(C) The withholding from a vulnerable person of necessary and adequate food, physical care or medical attention.
(2) Official misconduct in the first degree is a Class A misdemeanor.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) “Supervisory employee” means a person having the authority, in the interest of an employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward or discipline other employees.
(b) “Vulnerable person” has the meaning given that term in ORS 136.427. [1971 c.743 §215; 2017 c.519 §1]
163.476 Unlawfully being in a location where children regularly congregate. (1) A person commits the crime of unlawfully being in a location where children regularly congregate if the person:
(a)(A) Has been designated a sexually violent dangerous offender under ORS 137.765;
(B) Has been classified as a level three sex offender under ORS 163A.100 (3), and does not have written approval from the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision or the person’s supervisory authority or supervising officer to be in or upon the specific premises;
(C) Has been sentenced as a dangerous offender under ORS 161.725 upon conviction of a sex crime; or
(D) Has been given a similar designation or been sentenced under a similar law of another jurisdiction; and
(b) Knowingly enters or remains in or upon premises where persons under 18 years of age regularly congregate.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) “Premises where persons under 18 years of age regularly congregate” means schools, child care centers, playgrounds, other places intended for use primarily by persons under 18 years of age and places where persons under 18 years of age gather for regularly scheduled educational and recreational programs.
(b) “Sex crime” has the meaning given that term in ORS 163A.005.
(3) Unlawfully being in a location where children regularly congregate is a Class A misdemeanor. [2005 c.811 §1; 2013 c.708 §12; 2015 c.820 §§17,24; 2017 c.442 §34; 2019 c.430 §§5,9]
Note: 163.476 and 163.479 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 163 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
163.479 Unlawful contact with a child. (1) A person commits the crime of unlawful contact with a child if the person:
(a)(A) Has been designated a sexually violent dangerous offender under ORS 137.765;
(B) Has been classified as a level three sex offender under ORS 163A.100 (3);
(C) Has been sentenced as a dangerous offender under ORS 161.725 upon conviction of a sex crime; or
(D) Has been given a similar designation or been sentenced under a similar law of another jurisdiction; and
(b) Knowingly contacts a child with the intent to commit a crime or for the purpose of arousing or satisfying the sexual desires of the person or another person.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) “Child” means a person under 18 years of age.
(b) “Contact” means to communicate in any manner.
(c) “Sex crime” has the meaning given that term in ORS 163A.005.
(3) Unlawful contact with a child is a Class C felony. [2005 c.811 §2; 2013 c.708 §13; 2015 c.820 §§18,25; 2017 c.442 §35; 2019 c.430 §§6,10]
Note: See note under 163.476.
163A.035 Registration forms; Department of State Police to provide; distribution of information; rules; fee. (1) Agencies registering offenders under ORS 163A.010, 163A.015, 163A.020 and 163A.025 shall use forms and procedures adopted by the Department of State Police by administrative rule. The department shall include places on the form to list all the names used by the offender and the address of the offender. No later than three working days after registration, the agency or official completing the form shall forward the registration information to the department in the manner prescribed by the department.
(2) The department shall enter into the Law Enforcement Data System the sex offender information obtained from the sex offender registration forms. If a conviction or adjudication that gave rise to the registration obligation is reversed or vacated or if the registrant is pardoned, the department shall remove from the Law Enforcement Data System the sex offender information obtained from the form.
(3) The Law Enforcement Data System may send sex offender information to the National Crime Information Center as part of the national sex offender registry in accordance with appropriate state and federal procedures.
(4) If the person is no longer under supervision, the department shall verify the residence address of a person determined to be a sexually violent dangerous offender as defined in ORS 137.765 every 90 days by mailing a verification form to the person at the person’s last reported residence address. No later than 10 days after receiving the form, the person shall sign and return the form to the department.
(5) The department shall assess a person who is required to report under ORS 163A.010, 163A.015 or 163A.020 and who is not under supervision a fee of