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Oregon · Through 2025 Edition

ORS 167.428: Cockfighting.

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  1. 04 - Criminal Procedure, Crimes
  2. 16. Crimes and Punishments
  3. Chapter 167 — Offenses Against General Welfare and Animals

(1) A person commits the crime of cockfighting if the person knowingly:

      (a) Owns, possesses, keeps, rears, trains, buys, sells or advertises or otherwise offers to sell a fighting bird.

      (b) Promotes or participates in, or performs services in furtherance of, the conducting of a cockfight. As used in this paragraph, “services in furtherance” includes, but is not limited to, transporting spectators to a cockfight, handling fighting birds, organizing, advertising or refereeing a cockfight and providing, or acting as stakeholder for, money wagered on a cockfight.

      (c) Keeps, uses or manages, or accepts payment of admission to, a place for the conducting of a cockfight.

      (d) Suffers or permits a place in the possession or control of the person to be occupied, kept or used for the conducting of a cockfight.

      (2) Subsection (1)(a) of this section does not apply to the owning, possessing, keeping, rearing, buying, selling, advertising or otherwise offering for sale of a bird for purposes other than training the bird as a fighting bird, using or intending to use the bird in cockfighting or supplying the bird knowing that the bird is intended to be used in cockfighting.

      (3) Cockfighting is a Class C felony.

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