Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Bailey v. Lewis Farm, Inc. (2007)
Most recently applied in 301 Or. App. 404 - State v. Rodriguez (December 2019)
1983 c.338 §437
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.
(1) A person commits the offense of operation of an unsafe vehicle if the person does any of the following:
(a) Drives or moves on any highway any vehicle which is in such unsafe condition as to endanger any person.
(b) Owns a vehicle and causes or knowingly permits the vehicle to be driven or moved on any highway when the vehicle is in such unsafe condition as to endanger any person.
(2) The offense described in this section, operation of an unsafe vehicle, is a Class B traffic violation.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.