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Or. Rev. Stat. § 803.300 (2026)

Failure to register; penalty

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      803.300 Failure to register; penalty. (1) A person commits the offense of failure to register a vehicle if the person owns a vehicle in this state and the person does not register the vehicle in this state.

      (2) In addition to other persons subject to this section, this section applies to out-of-state corporations owning, operating or maintaining a place of business in this state with regard to vehicles that are used by the corporation doing business in this state.

      (3) Exemptions from this section are established under ORS 803.305.

      (4) The offense described in this section, failure to register a vehicle, is a Class D traffic violation. [1983 c.338 §205; 1985 c.16 §74; 1985 c.401 §4; 1995 c.383 §37]

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 14 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1989–2022 · leading case: State v. Sullivan, 520 P.3d 911 (Or. Ct. App. 2022).
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State v. Sullivan, 520 P.3d 911 (Or. Ct. App. 2022). · cites it 10× “1 ORS 803.300 provides: “(1) A person commits the offense of failure to register a vehicle if the person owns a vehicle in this state and the person does not register the vehi- cle in this state.”
State v. Davis, 239 P.3d 1002 (Or. Ct. App. 2010). · cites it 2× “ORS 803.300 requires vehicles to be registered.”
State v. Tiffin, 121 P.3d 9 (Or. Ct. App. 2005). “Hayes, 99 Or App 387 , 782 P2d 177 (1989), rev den, 309 Or 441 (1990), an officer ran a radio check on the defendant’s license plate and received a response that indicated that the vehicle was not properly registered, in violation of ORS 803.300. The officer stopped the vehicle,…”
Higgins v. Driver & Motor Veh. Servs. Branch, 13 P.3d 531 (Or. Ct. App. 2000). · cites it 2× “See ORS 803.300, 803.305(4), 803.520-.535, 803.”
Stedman v. Dept. of Forestry, 502 P.3d 234 (Or. Ct. App. 2021). “Although payment of money is involved, we would not characterize a motor-vehicle registration fee as an “admission price or fee” paid “in return for the permission” of the highways’ owners to go upon “the owner’s land.”
State v. Hayes, 782 P.2d 177 (Or. Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 2× “That would be a violation of ORS 803.300, a Class C traffic infraction.”
Auto. Club v. State of Oregon, 840 P.2d 674 (Or. 1992). “” See ORS 803.300 (registration is requisite of owning a vehicle in this state; failure to register is a Class C traffic infraction).”
State v. Dow, 842 P.2d 430 (Or. Ct. App. 1992). · cites it 3× “The officer stopped the car for a suspected violation of ORS 803.300. 2 Once he had determined that the Harpe brothers, and not defendant, were the owners of the car, he had all the evidence needed to issue a citation under ORS 803.”
State v. Ankeny, 474 P.3d 406 (Or. Ct. App. 2020). “” ORS 803.300. A “[r]egistration plate” is a plate “issued by a juris- diction as evidence of vehicle registration.”
State v. Ray, 990 P.2d 365 (Or. Ct. App. 1999). “1 Neither party disputes that Evans lawfully stopped and detained Christensen, first for the expired registration infraction, ORS 803.300, and then for driving while suspended.”
State v. Chapman, 478 P.3d 960 (Or. 2020). “175, and failure to register a vehicle, ORS 803.300. Wishing to appeal from that judgment and acting without legal representation, Cite as 367 Or 388 (2020) 391 defendant sent a notice of appeal to the Appellate Court Administrator by first-class mail.”
State v. Matthews, 868 P.2d 14 (Or. Ct. App. 1994). · cites it 2× “There, an officer ran a radio check on a license plate and received a response that indicated that the vehicle was not properly registered, in violation of ORS 803.300. The officer stopped the vehicle and discovered that the vehicle was properly registered; however, he also…”
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State v. Sullivan, 520 P.3d 911 (Or. Ct. App. 2022). “1 ORS 803.300 provides: “(1) A person commits the offense of failure to register a vehicle if the person owns a vehicle in this state and the person does not register the vehi- cle in this state.”
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