{"data":{"id":"us-or/ors-811.540","jurisdiction":"us-or","citation":"ORS 811.540","heading":"Fleeing or attempting to elude police officer; penalty.","body":"(1) A person commits the crime of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer if:\n      (a) The person is operating a motor vehicle; and\n      (b) A police officer who is in uniform and prominently displaying the police officer’s badge of office or operating a vehicle appropriately marked showing it to be an official police vehicle gives a visual or audible signal to bring the vehicle to a stop, including any signal by hand, voice, emergency light or siren, and either:\n      (A) The person, while still in the vehicle, knowingly flees or attempts to elude a pursuing police officer; or\n      (B) The person gets out of the vehicle and knowingly flees or attempts to elude the police officer.\n      (2) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution of a person under this section that, after a police officer operating a vehicle not marked as an official police vehicle signaled the person to bring the person’s vehicle to a stop, the person proceeded lawfully to an area the person reasonably believed was necessary to reach before stopping.\n      (3) The offense described in this section, fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, is applicable upon any premises open to the public and:\n      (a) Is a Class C felony if committed as described in subsection (1)(b)(A) of this section; or\n      (b) Is a Class A misdemeanor if committed as described in subsection (1)(b)(B) of this section. [1983 c.338 §664; 1991 c.655 §1; 1997 c.532 §1; 1997 c.860 §1]\nPARKING, STOPPING AND STANDING\n(Generally)","path":["19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation","59. Oregon Vehicle Code","Chapter 811 — Rules of the Road for Drivers"],"source_url":"https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors811.html","current_through":"2025 Edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T23:50:18Z","sha256":"bcc5c540d8ab17126d1328cd0a6a96c6cd6077bbb066a8100d6ff2de4f4d75d1","source_id":"us-or","stale":false,"prev":"us-or/ors-811.535","next":"us-or/ors-811.550"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}