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Oregon · Through 2025 Edition

ORS 167.810: Creating a hazard.

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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 creating a hazard if:

      (a) The person intentionally maintains or leaves in a place accessible to children a container with a compartment of more than one and one-half cubic feet capacity and a door or lid which locks or fastens automatically when closed and which cannot easily be opened from the inside; or

      (b) Being the owner or otherwise having possession of property upon which there is a well, cistern, cesspool, excavation or other hole of a depth of four feet or more and a top width of 12 inches or more, the owner intentionally fails or refuses to cover or fence it with a suitable protective construction.

      (2) Creating a hazard is a Class B misdemeanor.

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