72nd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2003 Regular Session
 
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LC 2953
 
                         House Bill 2872
 
Sponsored by COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
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measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Decreases penalty for crime of cheating to maximum of one
year's imprisonment, $5,000 fine, or both.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to crime; amending ORS 167.167.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 167.167 is amended to read:
  167.167. (1) A person commits the crime of cheating if the
person, while in the course of participating or attempting to
participate in any legal or illegal gambling activity, directly
or indirectly:
  (a) Employs or attempts to employ any device, scheme or
artifice to defraud any other participant or any operator;
  (b) Engages in any act, practice or course of operation that
operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any other
participant or any operator;
  (c) Engages in any act, practice or course of operation with
the intent of cheating any other participant or the operator to
gain an advantage in the game over the other participant or
operator; or
  (d) Causes, aids, abets or conspires with another person to
cause any other person to violate paragraphs (a) to (c) of this
subsection.
  (2) As used in this section, 'deceit,' 'defraud' and ' fraud'
are not limited to common law deceit or fraud.
  (3) Cheating is a Class   { - C felony - }  { +  A
misdemeanor + }.
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