ORS chapters 496, 497, 498 and 501 may be cited as the wildlife laws.
ORS 496.002
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case State v. Couch (2006)
Most recently applied in State v. Mankiller (October 2025)
1973 c.723 §2
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.