Chapter 115 Oregon Laws 1999

Session Law

AN ACT

SB 400

Relating to telephonic harassment; amending ORS 166.090.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:

SECTION 1. ORS 166.090 is amended to read:

166.090. (1) A telephone caller commits the crime of telephonic harassment if the caller intentionally harasses or annoys another person:

(a) By causing the telephone of the other person to ring, such caller having no communicative purpose; or

(b) By causing such other person's telephone to ring [and causing such other person to answer it], knowing that the caller has been forbidden from so doing by a person exercising lawful authority over the receiving telephone.

(2) Telephonic harassment is a Class B misdemeanor.

Approved by the Governor April 23, 1999

Filed in the office of Secretary of State April 23, 1999

Effective date October 23, 1999

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