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Oregon · Through 2025 Edition

ORS 163.206: Exceptions to criminal mistreatment.

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  1. 04 - Criminal Procedure, Crimes
  2. 16. Crimes and Punishments
  3. Chapter 163 — Offenses Against Persons

ORS 163.200 and 163.205 do not apply:

      (1) To a person acting pursuant to a court order, an advance directive or a form for appointing a health care representative pursuant to ORS 127.505 to 127.660 or a POLST, as defined in ORS 127.663;

      (2) To a person withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining procedures or artificially administered nutrition and hydration pursuant to ORS 127.505 to 127.660;

      (3) When a competent person refuses food, physical care or medical care;

      (4) To a person who provides an elderly person or a dependent person who is at least 18 years of age with spiritual treatment through prayer from a duly accredited practitioner of spiritual treatment as provided in ORS 124.095, in lieu of medical treatment, in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religious denomination of which the elderly or dependent person is a member or an adherent; or

      (5) To a duly accredited practitioner of spiritual treatment as provided in ORS 124.095.

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