431A.175. [2003 c.632 �2; 2015 c.158 �26; 2017 c.701 �16] ����� 165.815 Criminal impersonation. (1) A person commits the crime of criminal impersonation if: ����� (a) The person, with the intent

431A.175. [2003 c.632 �2; 2015 c.158 �26; 2017 c.701 �16]

����� 165.815 Criminal impersonation. (1) A person commits the crime of criminal impersonation if:

����� (a) The person, with the intent to injure an individual, intentionally impersonates the individual in a communication to a third person without the individual�s consent;

����� (b) The person acts with the intent to deceive the third person into believing that the third person is communicating with the individual;

����� (c) A reasonable person in the circumstances of the third person would believe that the third person is communicating with the individual; and

����� (d) The impersonation causes injury to the individual.

����� (2) Criminal impersonation is a Class A misdemeanor.

����� (3) As used in this section:

����� (a) �Impersonate� means to use an actual individual�s name or likeness to create a representation of the individual that another person would reasonably believe was or is the actual individual being impersonated.

����� (b) �Injure� means to intimidate, threaten, harass or physically harm. [2016 c.22 �1]

MISCELLANEOUS

����� 165.825 Sale of drugged horse. (1) No person shall sell or offer for sale any horse that is drugged, tranquilized or otherwise sedated without the consent of the buyer.

����� (2) Violation of subsection (1) of this section is a misdemeanor. [1971 c.175 ��1,2]

����� 165.840 �Telegraphic copy� defined for ORS 165.845 and 165.850. As used in ORS 165.845 and 165.850, �telegraphic copy� means any copy of a message made or prepared for delivery at the office to which the message may have been sent by telegraph. [Formerly 757.631]

����� 165.845 Making and drawing of checks and notes by wire.

(1) Checks, due bills, promissory notes, bills of exchange and all orders or agreements for the payment or delivery of money or other thing of value may be made or drawn by telegraph, and when so made or drawn:

����� (a) Have the same force and effect to charge the maker, drawer, indorser or acceptor thereof;

����� (b) Create the same rights and equities in favor of the payee, drawee, indorsee, acceptor, holder or bearer thereof; and

����� (c) Are entitled to the same days of grace, as if duly made or drawn and delivered in writing.

����� (2) No person other than the maker or drawer thereof shall cause any such instrument to be sent by telegraph so as to charge any person thereby.

����� (3) Whenever the genuineness or execution of any such instrument received by telegraph is denied on oath by the person sought to be charged thereby, it is incumbent upon the party claiming under or alleging the same to prove the existence and execution of the original writing from which the telegraphic copy was transmitted.

����� (4) The original message shall in all cases be preserved in the telegraph office from which it is sent. [Formerly 757.636; 1981 c.892 �91]

����� 165.850 Manner of expressing private and official seals in telegrams. Whenever any document to be sent by telegraph bears a seal, either private or official, it is not necessary for the operator to telegraph a description of the seal, or any word or device thereon, but the seal may be expressed in the telegraphic copy by the letters �L. S.,� or by the word �seal.� [Formerly 757.641]

PENALTIES

����� 165.990 Penalties. Violation of ORS 165.692 is a Class C felony. Criminal prosecution of violators of ORS 165.692 must be commenced within five years after the commission of the crime. [Formerly 757.992; subsection (4) of 1995 Edition enacted as 1995 c.496 �4; 2011 c.597 �161]

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