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ORS 131.605

Applied in 259 court decisions — leading case State v. Ehly (1993)

Most recently applied in 346 Or. App. 308 - State v. Potter (December 2025)

1973 c.836 §30; 1997 c.866 §2; 2011 c.506 §6; 2011 c.644 §12

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

As used in ORS 131.605 to 131.625, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) “Crime” has the meaning provided for that term in ORS 161.515.

(2) “Dangerous weapon,” “deadly weapon” and “person” have the meanings given those terms in ORS 161.015.

(3) “Frisk” is an external patting of a person’s outer clothing.

(4) “Is about to commit” means unusual conduct that leads a peace officer reasonably to conclude in light of the officer’s training and experience that criminal activity may be afoot.

(5) “Peace officer” has the meaning given that term in ORS 133.005.

(6) “Reasonably suspects” means that a peace officer holds a belief that is reasonable under the totality of the circumstances existing at the time and place the peace officer acts as authorized in ORS 131.605 to 131.625.

(7) A “stop” is a temporary restraint of a person’s liberty by a peace officer lawfully present in any place.

Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.