Legal Question in Criminal Law in Oregon

Re: theft 2

How the law of theft "reads" depends on the facts and circumstances. The law of theft is quite lengthy and complicated.

164.015 Theft described. A person commits theft when, with intent to deprive another of property or to appropriate property to the person or to a third person, the person:

(1) Takes, appropriates, obtains or withholds such property from an owner thereof; or

(2) Commits theft of property lost, mislaid or delivered by mistake as provided in ORS 164.065; or

(3) Commits theft by extortion as provided in ORS 164.075; or

(4) Commits theft by deception as provided in ORS 164.085; or

(5) Commits theft by receiving as provided in ORS 164.095. [1971 c.743 s.123]

164.045 Theft in the second degree. (1) A person commits the crime of theft in the second degree if, by other than extortion, the person:

(a) Commits theft as defined in ORS 164.015; and

(b) The total value of the property in a single or aggregate transaction is $50 or more but is under $200 in a case of theft by receiving and under $750 in any other case.

(2) Theft in the second degree is a Class A misdemeanor. [1971 c.743 s.124; 1987 c.907 s.3; 1993 c.680 s.19]