{"data":{"id":"us-or/ors-167.428","jurisdiction":"us-or","citation":"ORS 167.428","heading":"Cockfighting.","body":"(1) A person commits the crime of cockfighting if the person knowingly:\n      (a) Owns, possesses, keeps, rears, trains, buys, sells or advertises or otherwise offers to sell a fighting bird.\n      (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.\n      (c) Keeps, uses or manages, or accepts payment of admission to, a place for the conducting of a cockfight.\n      (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.\n      (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.\n      (3) Cockfighting is a Class C felony.","path":["04 - Criminal Procedure, Crimes","16. Crimes and Punishments","Chapter 167 — Offenses Against General Welfare and Animals"],"source_url":"https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors167.html","current_through":"2025 Edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T23:50:11Z","sha256":"159680dd0197b2545a5590bf5be3ea6a49ab0a73c174df5f81706b10b131d86a","source_id":"us-or","stale":false,"prev":"us-or/ors-167.426","next":"us-or/ors-167.430"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}