Oregon Code § 646.040·Enacted ·Last updated March 01, 2026
Statute Text
Price
discrimination prohibited; price differentials.
(1) It is unlawful for any person
engaged in commerce or food commerce, or both, in the course of such commerce,
either directly or indirectly, to discriminate in price between different
purchasers of commodities, or services or output of a service trade, of like
grade and quality or to discriminate in price between different sections,
communities or cities or portions thereof or between different locations in
sections, communities, cities or portions thereof in this state, where the
effect of such discrimination may be substantially to lessen competition or
tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce, or to injure, destroy or
prevent competition with any person who either grants or knowingly receives the
benefit of such discrimination, or with customers of either of them.
(2) Subsection
(1) of this section does not prevent:
(a) Differentials
which make only due allowance for differences in the cost of manufacture, sale
or delivery, resulting from the differing methods or quantities in which the
commodities are sold or delivered to purchasers.
(b) Persons
engaged in selling goods, wares or merchandise, or service or output of a
service trade, in commerce from selecting their own customers in bona fide
transactions and not in restraint of trade.
(c) Price changes
from time to time where in response to changing conditions affecting the market
for or marketability of the goods concerned, such as but not limited to actual
or imminent deterioration of perishable goods, obsolescence of seasonal goods,
distress sales under court process, or sales in good faith in discontinuance of
business in the goods concerned.
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Key Points
01Part of Oregon statutory law
02Referenced as Oregon Code § 646.040
03Subject to legislative amendments
04Consult a licensed attorney for application to specific cases
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