After a 72-year reign, Oregon’s self-service gas station prohibition is scheduled to be repealed statewide on August 4th.
Oregon’s Legislature passed the law earlier this year to legalize self-service gas statewide, and Governor Kotek planned to let the bill go into effect Aug. 4th. Now, New Jersey is the only state banning self-serve gas.
Unusual conditions apply, depending on rural areas and the way that stations choose to implement partial self-serve provisions. The law says half of pumps must retain full-service pumping. Even at stations that choose to offer self-service, they are required to offer full service on half their pumps, and they can't offer self-service without providing full service at the same time. Some existing rural self-serve allowances are to be retained.
Patchwork of regulations, gets simpler. If you’ve driven through a rural Oregon county, you may have already pumped your own gas. In 2015, the state legalized self-serve gas at night in some rural and coastal counties. It expanded that rule to all rural counties in 2017, and temporarily permitted self-serve gas in Oregon every summer since 2020, due to wildfires and heat waves. The new law simplifies those prior rules, legalizing self-serve fuel everywhere while retaining some rural allowance.
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