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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 733
Sponsored by Senator GELSER BLOUIN (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act expands the definition of the term “potentially dangerous dog” in dog control.
The Act says that the term includes a dog that harms livestock. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7).
Expands the definition of the term “potentially dangerous dog,” for dog control purposes, to in-
clude a dog that inflicts serious injury on or kills livestock.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to dogs harming livestock; amending ORS 609.035.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 609.035 is amended to read:
609.035. As used in ORS 609.035 to 609.110 and 609.990:
(1) “Boarding kennel”:
(a) Means, except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, a facility that provides care
for a fee to dogs that stay at the facility an average of less than 30 days.
(b) Does not mean a facility that is subject to ORS 167.374 or 167.376.
(2) “Dog control board” means a group of persons whose duties include, but need not be limited
to, fulfilling the duties of a dog control district board of supervisors as described in ORS 609.030.
(3) “Dog control officer” means a person whose duties include, but need not be limited to, en-
forcing the dog control laws for a dog control district.
(4) “Domestic animal” means an animal, other than livestock or equines, that is owned
or possessed by a person.
[(4)] (5) “Keeper” means a person who owns, possesses, controls or otherwise has charge of a
dog, other than:
(a) A boarding kennel;
(b) A humane society or other nonprofit animal shelter;
(c) A facility impounding dogs on behalf of a city or county; or
(d) A veterinary facility.
(6) “Livestock” means ratites, horses, mules, jackasses, cattle, llamas, alpacas, sheep,
goats, swine, domesticated fowl and any fur-bearing animal bred and maintained commer-
cially or otherwise, within pens, cages or hutches.
[(5)] (7) “Menaces” means lunging, growling, snarling or other behavior by a dog that would
cause a reasonable person to fear for the person’s safety.
[(6)] (8) “Potentially dangerous dog” means a dog that:
(a) Without provocation and while not on premises from which the keeper may lawfully exclude
others, menaces a person;
(b) Without provocation, inflicts physical injury on a person that is less severe than a serious
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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physical injury; or
(c) Without provocation and while not on premises from which the keeper may lawfully exclude
others, inflicts physical injury on or kills livestock or a domestic animal [as definedin ORS
167.310].
[(7)] (9) “Running at large” means that a dog is off or outside of the premises from which the
keeper of the dog may lawfully exclude others, or is not in the company of and under the control
of its keeper, except if the dog is:
(a) Being used to legally hunt, chase or tree wildlife while under the supervision of the keeper;
(b) Being used to control or protect livestock or for other activities related to agriculture; or
(c) Within any part of a vehicle.
[(8)] (10) “Serious physical injury” has the meaning given that term in ORS 161.015.
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