The State Fish and Wildlife Director and any deputies of the director and all other peace officers of this state or any political subdivision thereof have jurisdiction of and may enforce any of the provisions of the wildlife laws.
ORS 496.605
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case State v. Tourtillot (1980)
Most recently applied in 166 Or. App. 660 - Franke v. Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (April 2000)
Amended by 1973 c.723 §17
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.