5.40.045 Interfering with a Police Dog.
A. Definitions. For purposes of this code section, the following definitions apply:
1. Peace officer means a municipal police officer, sheriff, constable, marshal, member of the Oregon State Police or investigator of the Criminal Justice Division of the Department of Justice and such other persons as may be designated by law.
2. Police dog means a dog used in police work under the control of a peace officer.
B. A person commits the offense of interfering with a police dog if the person intentionally or knowingly kills, disables, tortures, injures, torments, kicks, strikes, chokes, throws an object at or in any other way tampers or interferes with any police dog, knowing the dog to be a police dog, while the dog is being caged, kenneled, transported, exhibited, exercised or used in discharging or attempting to discharge any lawful duty or function as a police dog.
C. A violation of this section is a Class A civil infraction. [Ord. NS-2142, 2010]