Oregon Statutes - Chapter 146 - Investigations of Deaths, Injuries and Missing Persons

• 146.001   [Formerly 146.087; repealed by 1987 c.517 §1 (432.300 enacted in lieu of 146.001)]
• 146.003   Definitions for ORS 146.003 to 146.189 and 146.710 to 146.992.
  As used in ORS 146.003 to 146.189 and 146.710 to 146.992, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Approved laboratory” means a laboratory approved by the...
• 146.005   [1959 c.629 §8; 1965 c.221 §14; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.010   [Amended by 1959 c.629 §16; renumbered 10.810]
• 146.015   State Medical Examiner Advisory Board; Department of State Police rules; appointment of State Medical Examiner.
  (1) There is hereby established the State Medical Examiner Advisory Board. (2) The advisory board shall make policies for the administration of ORS 146.003 to...
• 146.020   [Renumbered 10.820]
• 146.025   Functions of board.
  In addition to the duties set forth in ORS 146.015 the State Medical Examiner Advisory Board shall: (1) Recommend to the Oregon Department of Administrative...
• 146.030   [1959 c.629 §10; 1965 c.221 §15; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.035   State Medical Examiner; personnel; records; right to examine records.
  (1) There shall be established within the Department of State Police the State Medical Examiner’s office for the purpose of directing and supporting the state...
• 146.040   [1959 c.629 §1; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.045   Duties of State Medical Examiner.
  (1) After consultation with the State Medical Examiner Advisory Board, the State Medical Examiner shall appoint each Deputy State Medical Examiner. (2) The State Medical...
• 146.050   [1959 c.629 §2; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.055   Advice; autopsies; training programs; report.
  (1) The State Medical Examiner shall assist and advise district medical examiners in the performance of their duties. (2) The State Medical Examiner shall perform...
• 146.060   [1959 c.629 §3; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.065   County and district medical examiners; appointment; Deputy State Medical Examiner.
  (1) In each county there shall be a medical examiner for the purpose of investigating and certifying the cause and manner of deaths requiring investigation....
• 146.070   [1959 c.629 §4; 1969 c.314 §8; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.075   District office duties; personnel; expenses for certain duties; records and reports.
  (1) The district medical examiner shall serve as the administrator of the district medical examiner’s office. Subject to applicable provisions of a county personnel policy...
• 146.080   Assistant district medical examiner.
  (1) Each district medical examiner may appoint one or more assistant district medical examiners. (2) The qualifications of an assistant district medical examiner shall be...
• 146.085   Deputy medical examiners.
  (1) The district medical examiner shall appoint, subject to the approval of the district attorney and applicable civil service regulations, qualified deputy medical examiners, including...
• 146.087   [1975 c.565 §1; renumbered 146.001]
• 146.088   When medical examiner is officer or employee of public body.
  A district medical examiner, deputy medical examiner, assistant district medical examiner or designated pathologist is deemed to be an officer or employee of a public...
• 146.090   Deaths requiring investigation.
  (1) The medical examiner shall investigate and certify the cause and manner of all human deaths: (a) Apparently homicidal, suicidal or occurring under suspicious or...
• 146.095   Investigation; certification; report; training.
  (1) The district medical examiner and the district attorney for the county where death occurs, as provided by ORS 146.100 (2), shall be responsible for...
• 146.100   Where death considered to have occurred; notification of death required.
  (1) Death investigations shall be under the direction of the district medical examiner and the district attorney for the county where the death occurs. (2)...
• 146.103   Removal of body, effects or weapons prohibited without consent.
  (1) In a death requiring an investigation, no person shall move a human body or body suspected of being human, or remove any of the...
• 146.105   [1959 c.629 §7; repealed by 1965 c.221 §7]
• 146.107   Authority to enter and secure certain premises.
  (1) A medical examiner, deputy medical examiner or district attorney may enter any room, dwelling, building or other place in which the medical examiner, deputy...
• 146.109   Notification of next of kin.
  (1) Upon identifying the body, the medical examiner shall immediately attempt to locate the next of kin or responsible friends to obtain the designation of...
• 146.110   [Amended by 1959 c.629 §34; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.113   Authority to order removal of body fluids.
  (1) A medical examiner or district attorney may, in any death requiring investigation, order samples of blood or urine taken for laboratory analysis. (2) When...
• 146.115   [Amended by 1955 c.190 §1; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.117   Autopsies.
  (1) A medical examiner or district attorney may order an autopsy performed in any death requiring investigation. This authorization for an autopsy shall permit the...
• 146.120   [Amended by 1959 c.629 §35; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.121   Disposition of body; filing; expenses.
  (1) No person shall bury or otherwise dispose of the body of a person whose death required investigation, without having first obtained a burial or...
• 146.125   Disposition of personal property.
  (1) The medical examiner, deputy medical examiner, district attorney or sheriff may temporarily retain possession of any property found on the body or in the...
• 146.130   [Amended by 1959 c.629 §36; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.135   Authority to order inquest.
  (1) The district attorney for the county where the death occurs may order an inquest to obtain a jury finding of the cause and manner...
• 146.140   [Amended by 1959 c.629 §37; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.145   Jury of inquest.
  (1) The district attorney shall order the inquest to be held at a specified time and place and as provided in ORS 10.810 and 10.820...
• 146.150   [Amended by 1959 c.629 §38; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.155   Inquest proceedings.
  (1) The six members of the jury of inquest shall be sworn by the district attorney to: (a) Inquire into who the deceased person was,...
• 146.160   [Amended by 1959 c.629 §39; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.165   Verdict; findings; testimony and verdict of inquest as admissible evidence in subsequent proceedings.
  (1) The jury shall give its verdict in writing, signed by its members, setting forth its findings from the evidence produced: (a) Who the deceased...
• 146.170   [Amended by 1955 c.161 §1; 1959 c.629 §40; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.171   Unidentified human remains; maintenance of records.
  (1) The Superintendent of State Police shall establish and maintain a file of records relating to unidentified human remains found within the state and of...
• 146.174   Medical examiner to provide information about unidentified human remains; identification.
  (1) If a medical examiner is unable to determine the identity of human remains, the medical examiner shall, not later than 30 days after such...
• 146.177   Procedures for investigating missing persons.
  Written policies adopted by Oregon law enforcement agencies regarding missing persons shall specify the procedures for investigating missing persons in order to ensure that reported...
• 146.180   [Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.181   Missing persons; police report; supplementary report.
  (1) When a person is reported as missing to any city, county or state police agency, the agency, within 12 hours thereafter, shall enter into...
• 146.184   Medical practitioners to provide information about missing persons.
  (1) A dentist, denturist, physician, optometrist or other medical practitioner, upon receipt of a written request from a law enforcement agency for identifying information pursuant...
• 146.187   DNA sample.
  (1) If a person who has been reported as missing has not been located within 30 days after the missing person report is made, the...
• 146.189   Use of records to identify human remains and missing persons; disposition of records.
  (1) If the Superintendent of State Police is notified that a record of unidentified human remains filed by the Department of State Police under ORS...
• 146.190   [Amended by 1959 c.629 §41; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.200   [Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.210   [Amended by 1959 c.629 §42; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.220   [Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.230   [Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.240   [Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.250   [Amended by 1953 c.568 §3; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.260   [Amended by 1953 c.568 §3; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.270   [Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.280   [Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
• 146.310   [1965 c.221 §2; 1971 c.487 §3; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.315   [1971 c.487 §2; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.320   [1965 c.221 §5; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.330   [1965 c.221 §3; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.340   [1965 c.221 §4; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.350   [1965 c.221 §6; 1971 c.487 §4; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.360   [1965 c.221 §7; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.370   [1965 c.221 §8; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.410   [1959 c.629 §6; 1965 c.221 §16; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.420   [1959 c.629 §9; 1963 c.98 §1; 1965 c.91 §1; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.430   [1959 c.629 §11; 1961 c.434 §3; 1965 c.91 §2; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.440   [1959 c.629 §12; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.450   [1959 c.629 §13; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.460   [1959 c.629 §14; repealed by 1965 c.91 §3 (146.461 enacted in lieu of 146.460)]
• 146.461   [1965 c.91 §4 (enacted in lieu of 146.460); repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.470   [1959 c.629 §15; 1961 c.434 §4; 1965 c.91 §5; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.480   [1959 c.629 §17; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.490   [1959 c.629 §18; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.500   [1959 c.629 §19; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.505   [1983 c.390 §1; renumbered 146.171 in 2007]
• 146.510   [1959 c.629 §20; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.515   [1983 c.390 §2; 2007 c.500 §5; renumbered 146.174 in 2007]
• 146.520   [1959 c.629 §21; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.525   [1983 c.390 §3; 1989 c.1059 §3; 2007 c.500 §3; renumbered 146.181 in 2007]
• 146.530   [1959 c.629 §22; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.535   [1983 c.390 §4; 2007 c.500 §6; renumbered 146.184 in 2007]
• 146.540   [1959 c.629 §23; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.545   [1983 c.390 §5; 2007 c.500 §7; renumbered 146.189 in 2007]
• 146.550   [1959 c.629 §24; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.560   [1959 c.629 §25; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.565   [1961 c.434 §2; 1965 c.91 §6; 1965 c.439 §4; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.570   [1959 c.629 §26; 1967 c.632 §1; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.580   [1959 c.629 §27; 1961 c.434 §5; 1967 c.632 §2; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.590   [1959 c.629 §§28,29; 1961 c.434 §6; 1967 c.632 §3; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.600   [1959 c.629 §30; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.610   [1959 c.629 §31; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.710   Definition for ORS 146.710 to 146.780.
  As used in ORS 146.710 to 146.780, “injury” means: (1) A physical injury caused by a knife, gun, pistol or other dangerous or deadly weapon;...
• 146.720   [1963 c.621 §§3,4; 1965 c.221 §17; repealed by 1965 c.472 §9]
• 146.730   Investigation.
  A medical examiner or district attorney may investigate an injury whenever the injury occurred under suspicious or unknown circumstances. All authority granted to the medical...
• 146.740   Reports of medical examiner.
  Whenever the medical examiner concludes that a crime may have been committed by any person in causing the injury, the medical examiner shall report the...
• 146.750   Injuries to be reported to medical examiner.
  (1) Except as required in subsection (3) of this section, any physician, including any intern and resident, having reasonable cause to suspect that a person...
• 146.760   Immunity of participant in making of report.
  Anyone participating in good faith in the making of a report pursuant to ORS 146.750 and who has reasonable grounds for the making thereof shall...
• 146.770   [1965 c.472 §6; 1971 c.451 §14; renumbered 418.775]
• 146.780   Confidentiality of records and reports.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS 192.410 to 192.505 relating to confidentiality and accessibility for public inspection of public records, records and reports made under the...
• 146.990   [Subsection (1) enacted as 1959 c.629 §45; subsection (3) of 1963 Replacement Part enacted as 1963 c.621 §7; 1965 c.221 §20; 1965 c.472 §8; 1971 c.451 §16; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
• 146.992   Penalties.
  (1) A person who violates ORS 146.103 (1) commits a Class A misdemeanor. (2) A person who violates ORS 146.103 (2) or (4), 146.107 (5),...

Last modified: August 7, 2008