Bill Text: OR HB2576 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to crime.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB2576 Detail]
Download: Oregon-2013-HB2576-Introduced.html
77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session NOTE: Matter within { + braces and plus signs + } in an amended section is new. Matter within { - braces and minus signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within { + braces and plus signs + } . LC 737 House Bill 2576 Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee on Judiciary) SUMMARY The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the 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, $6,250 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 - } { + Class A misdemeanor + }. ----------