Applied in 62 court decisions — leading case State v. Bailey (2009)
Most recently applied in State v. Roberts (February 2026)
1983 c.338 §297
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 possession of a stolen vehicle if the person possesses any vehicle which the person knows or has reason to believe has been stolen.
(2) The offense described in this section, possession of a stolen vehicle, is a Class C felony.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.