Oregon Revised Statutes

Or. Rev. Stat. § 471.620 (2026)

Property and places as common nuisances

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471.620 Property and places as common nuisances. Any room, house, building, boat, structure or place of any kind where alcoholic liquor is sold, manufactured, bartered or given away in violation of the law, or where persons are permitted to resort for the purpose of drinking alcoholic beverages in violation of the law, or any place where such beverages are kept for sale, barter or gift in violation of the law, and all liquor or property subject to confiscation under ORS 471.610 kept and used in such place is a common nuisance. Any person who maintains or assists in maintaining such common nuisance or knowingly suffers or permits such nuisance to exist in any place of which the person is the owner, manager or lessor, shall be guilty of a violation of the Liquor Control Act.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1959–1971 · leading case: Wiener v. Gamma Phi Chapter of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, 485 P.2d 18 (Or. 1971).

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Wiener v. Gamma Phi Chapter of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, 485 P.2d 18 (Or. 1971). · cites it 2× “*23 The second count of the complaint, charging the defendants with maintaining a public nuisance in violation of ORS 471.620, also fails to state a cause of action.”

State v. Elkins, 339 P.2d 715 (Or. 1959). · cites it 7× “310 in the caption is not a fatal defect because the suffi *512 ciency of an indictment is determined by the averments in the charging part of the indictment and not the caption, and that the indictment before ns charges a crime under ORS 471.620. We have held, as the state…”

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