Or. Rev. Stat. » Oregon Revised Statutes
Oregon Revised Statutes

Or. Rev. Stat. § 162.245 (2026)

Refusing to assist a peace officer

✓ current as of May 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section ORSoregonlegislature.gov JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

      162.245 Refusing to assist a peace officer. (1) A person commits the offense of refusing to assist a peace officer if upon command by a person known by the person to be a peace officer the person unreasonably refuses or fails to assist in effecting an authorized arrest or preventing another from committing a crime.

      (2) This section does not apply to the act, by itself, of informing another person of the other person’s civil or constitutional rights.

      (3) Refusing to assist a peace officer is a Class B violation. [1971 c.743 §199; 1999 c.1051 §150; 2025 c.246 §2]

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1992–1992 · leading case: City of Dallas v. Sullenger, 826 P.2d 34 (Or. Ct. App. 1992).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
City of Dallas v. Sullenger, 826 P.2d 34 (Or. Ct. App. 1992). · cites it 2× “" At oral argument in this court, defendant added ORS 162.245 (refusing to assist peace officer) and ORS 162.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.