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Harassment
ORS > Criminal Code > Person > 166.065
(1) M(b): intentionally:
(a) harasses or annoys other by:
(B) publicly insulting or abusive words or gestures intended & likely provoke a violent response
(b) Subjects another to alarm by conveying a false report, known by the conveyor to be false, concerning death or serious physical injury to a person, and the report would be reasonably expected to cause alarm
(c) Subjects another to alarm by conveying a telephonic, electronic or written threat to inflict serious physical injury on that person or to commit a felony involving the person or property of that person or any member of that person's family, which threat reasonably would be expected to cause alarm
(2)(a) A person is criminally liable for harassment if they knowingly permit any telephone or electronic device under the person's control to be used in violation of paragraph (1)
(b) Harassment that is committed under the circumstances described in paragraph (1)(c)is committed in either the county in which the communication originated or the county in which the communication was received
(3) Harassment is a Class B misdemeanor
(4) M(a): regardless of paragraph (3) if a person:
(a) violates paragraph (1)(a)(A) by subjecting another person to offensive physical contact AND:
(A) The offensive physical contact consists of touching the sexual or other intimate parts of the other person OR
(B)(i) tha victim is a family/household member of the suspect AND
(ii) the offense is committed in the immediate presence of, or is witnessed by, the person's or the victim's minor child or stepchild or a minor child residing within the household of the person or victim OR
(b) violates paragraph (1)(c) AND
(A) the suspect has a previous conviction under subsection (1)(c and the victim of the current offense was the victim or a member of the family of the victim of the previous offense
(B) at the time the offense was committed, the victim was protected by a stalking protective order, a restraining order as defined in 24.190 (Foreign restraining orders) or any other court order prohibiting the person from contacting the victim
(C) at the time the offense was committed, the suspect reasonably believed the victim to be under 18 years of age and more than three years younger than they were OR
(D)(i) the suspect conveyed a threat to kill the other person or any member of the family of the other person
(ii) the suspect expressed the intent to carry out the threat AND
(iii) a reasonable person would believe threat was likely to be followed by action
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