ORS 811.365: Illegal U-turn; penalty.

(1) A person commits the offense of making an illegal U-turn if the person is operating a vehicle and the person turns the vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction in any of the following places: (a) Within an intersection where traffic is controlled by an electrical signal. This paragraph does not apply where posted otherwise. (b) Upon a highway within the limits of an incorporated city between intersections. (c) At any place upon a highway where the vehicle cannot be seen by another driver approaching from either direction within a distance of: (A) 500 feet within the incorporated limits of a city; or (B) 1,000 feet outside a city. (2) The offense described in this section, illegal U-turn, is a Class C traffic violation unless commission of the offense contributes to an accident. If commission of the offense contributes to an accident, the offense is a Class B traffic violation. [1983 c.338 §629; 1995 c.383 §63] (Lane Use)