Oregon Statutes 475.902 – Directives to Oregon Criminal Justice Commission
(1) The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission shall classify causing another person to ingest a controlled substance as a person felony and crime category 8 of the sentencing guidelines grid of the commission.
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 475.902
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Sentencing guidelines: A set of rules and principles established by the United States Sentencing Commission that trial judges use to determine the sentence for a convicted defendant. Source: U.S. Courts
(2) The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission shall classify causing another person to ingest a controlled substance with the intent of committing or facilitating a crime of violence against the other person as a person felony and crime category 9 of the sentencing guidelines grid of the commission.
(3) The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission shall amend its rules and appendices to prohibit persons convicted of manufacturing substantial quantities of methamphetamine, its salts, isomers or salts of its isomers from being eligible for an optional probation sentence.
(4) As used in subsection (3) of this section, ‘substantial quantities’ means that quantity of methamphetamine, its salts, isomers or salts of its isomers described in ORS § 475.900 (1)(a). [Formerly 475.998; 2009 c.11 § 70]
475.902 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS Chapter 475 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.