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ORS 163.700 - Videotaping


163.700. (1) Except as provided in ORS 163.702, a person commits the crime of invasion of personal privacy if:
(a)(A) The person knowingly makes or records a photograph, motion picture, videotape or other visual recording of another person in a state of nudity without the consent of the person being recorded; and
[(b)] (B) At the time the visual recording is made or recorded the person being recorded is in a place and circumstances where the person has a reason-able expectation of personal privacy...


(2)(c)"Places and circumstances where the person has a reasonable expectation of personal privacy" includes, but is not limited to, a bathroom, dressing room, locker room that includes an enclosed area for dressing or showering, tanning booth and any area where a person undresses in an enclosed space that is not open to public view.

CHAPTER 330
AN ACT SB 625

Effective date January 1, 2002

Relating to crime; amending ORS 163.700.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 163.700 is amended to read:

163.700. (1) Except as provided in ORS 163.702, a person commits the crime of invasion of personal privacy if:

(a)(A) The person knowingly makes or records a photograph, motion picture, videotape or other visual recording of another person in a state of nudity without the consent of the person being recorded; an

[(b)] (B) At the time the visual recording is made or recorded the person being recorded is in a place and circumstances where the person has a reason-able expectation of personal privacy; or

(b)(A) For the purpose of arousing or gratfying the sexual desire of the person, the person is in a location to observe another person in a state of nudity without the consent of the other person; an

(B) The other person is in a place and circumstances where the person has a reasonable expectation of personal privacy

(2) As used in this section

(a) "Makes or records a photograph, motion pic-ture, videotape or other visual recording" includes, but is not limited to, making or recording or em-ploying, authorizing, permitting, compelling or in-ducing another person to make or record a photograph, motion picture, videotape or other vis-ual recording.

(b) "Nudity" means uncovered, or less than opaquely covered, post-pubescent human genitals, pubic areas or a post-pubescent human female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola. "Nudity" includes a partial state of nudity.

(c) "Places and circumstances where the person has a reasonable expectation of personal privacy" includes, but is not limited to, a bathroom, dressing room, locker room that includes an enclosed area for dressing or showering, tanning booth and any area where a person undresses in an enclosed space that is not open to public view.

(d) "Public view" means that an area can be readily seen and that a person within the area can be distinguished by normal unaided vision when viewed from a public place as defined in ORS 161.015

(3) Invasion of personal privacy is a Class A misdemeanor

Approved by the Governor June 5, 2001
Filed in the office of Secretary of State June 5, 2001


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