Oregon Statutes - Chapter 692 - Funeral Service Practitioners; Embalmers; Funeral Establishments; Cemetery and Crematory Operators

• 692.010   Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (1) “Board” means the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board. (2) “Cemetery” means any one, or a combination of more than...
• 692.020   [Amended by 1973 c.411 §1; repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.025   License required for funeral service practitioner, embalmer, funeral establishment operator, cemetery or crematory operator.
  (1) An individual may not practice as a funeral service practitioner unless the individual is licensed as a funeral service practitioner under ORS 692.045. An...
• 692.030   [Amended by 1973 c.411 §2; repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.040   Application of chapter.
  This chapter does not apply to any of the following: (1) A public institution, medical college, county medical society, anatomical association, college of embalming, or...
• 692.045   Funeral service practitioner license; application; examination; experience.
  (1) The State Mortuary and Cemetery Board shall issue a license to an individual to practice as a funeral service practitioner if the individual meets...
• 692.050   [Repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.060   [Amended by 1971 c.115 §1; 1979 c.858 §1; repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.070   Scope of examination for funeral service practitioner license; notice of examination.
  (1) The State Mortuary and Cemetery Board shall offer an examination at least once each year to applicants for a license to practice as a...
• 692.080   [Repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.090   [Amended by 1971 c.115 §2; repealed by 1997 c.638 §12]
• 692.100   [Repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.105   Embalmer license; application; qualifications of applicant.
  (1) The State Mortuary and Cemetery Board shall issue a license to an individual to practice as an embalmer if the individual is 18 years...
• 692.110   [Amended by 1971 c.115 §3; repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.120   [Amended by 1971 c.115 §4; 1981 c.719 §2; repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.130   Scope and conduct of embalmer examination.
  (1) The State Mortuary and Cemetery Board shall offer an examination at least once each year to applicants for a license to practice as an...
• 692.140   Reciprocity for embalmers or funeral service practitioners.
  (1) The State Mortuary and Cemetery Board shall issue a license to practice as a funeral service practitioner or an embalmer to an applicant from...
• 692.144   [1957 c.596 §4; 1971 c.115 §7; repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.146   Application for funeral establishment or immediate disposition company license.
  (1) The State Mortuary and Cemetery Board shall issue a license to a funeral establishment or immediate disposition company if the person who will operate...
• 692.148   When new or reissued license, registration or certificate required; fee.
  (1) If the principals of a licensed funeral establishment or immediate disposition company change, the establishment or company shall apply to the State Mortuary and...
• 692.150   [Repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.160   License fees; expiration date of licenses; notice of renewal; rules.
  (1) The fees that may be charged under this chapter are: (a) A fee covering requests for applications for a funeral establishment license, an immediate...
• 692.165   [1957 c.596 §7; 1971 c.115 §10; 1983 c.810 §14; 1989 c.177 §8; repealed by 1993 c.308 §6]
• 692.170   Reinstatement of lapsed licenses.
  (1) When a licensee or an apprentice has allowed a license or a certificate of apprenticeship to lapse, the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board may...
• 692.180   Grounds for revocation, suspension or refusal to issue or renew licenses or certificates; civil penalty; investigation; confidentiality.
  (1) Upon complaint or upon its own motion, the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board may investigate any complaint concerning any person, licensee or holder of...
• 692.190   Application for and issuance of apprentice registration; conditions and duration of apprenticeship; rules.
  (1) An individual who wishes to engage as an apprentice shall apply to the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board for registration as a funeral service...
• 692.200   [Amended by 1973 c.411 §8; repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.210   [Repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.220   [Repealed by 1983 c.810 §29]
• 692.230   Grounds for suspension and revocation of certificates of apprenticeship; reregistration when certificate has lapsed or is suspended or revoked; investigation; confidentiality.
  (1) The State Mortuary and Cemetery Board may suspend or revoke a certificate of apprenticeship, after notice and upon hearing, if the board finds any...
• 692.240   [Amended by 1971 c.115 §13; repealed by 1971 c.734 §21]
• 692.250   [Repealed by 1971 c.734 §21]
• 692.260   Grounds for revocation, suspension or refusal to renew funeral establishment or immediate disposition company license.
  The State Mortuary and Cemetery Board may revoke, suspend or refuse to renew a license issued to a funeral establishment or immediate disposition company if...
• 692.265   License denial and civil penalty procedure; rules and orders; judicial review.
  (1) If the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board proposes to impose a civil penalty or to revoke, suspend or refuse to issue or renew any...
• 692.270   Certificate of removal registration for removal of dead human bodies; requirements; sanctions.
  (1) The State Mortuary and Cemetery Board shall issue a certificate of removal registration to a funeral establishment licensed in another state contiguous to Oregon...
• 692.275   Certificate for operating cemetery or crematorium; fees; registration of certain cemeteries; rules applicable to crematoriums.
  (1) The application for a certificate of authority to conduct the business of an operating cemetery shall be made on a form provided by the...
• 692.285   [1985 c.207 §21; 1987 c.813 §14; 1993 c.467 §1; 1995 c.144 §6; 1995 c.325 §1; 1997 c.98 §1; repealed by 2001 c.796 §29]
• 692.300   State Mortuary and Cemetery Board; appointment; term; qualifications.
  (1) There is created the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board in the Department of Human Services to carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions...
• 692.310   Meetings; officers.
  The State Mortuary and Cemetery Board shall meet at least semiannually, and at such other times as it may determine, and shall elect from its...
• 692.320   Powers and duties; rules.
  (1) The State Mortuary and Cemetery Board has the power to adopt and enforce for the protection of the public health, safety and welfare reasonable...
• 692.330   Compensation and expenses.
  Each member of the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board is entitled to compensation and expenses as provided in ORS 292.495. [Amended by 1969 c.314 §93;...
• 692.340   [Repealed by 1973 c.411 §15]
• 692.350   Publication of statutes and rules.
  Except as provided in this section, after each change in the provisions of this chapter or in the rules adopted under this chapter, the State...
• 692.360   [Repealed by 1973 c.411 §15]
• 692.370   [Amended by 1967 c.637 §35; repealed by 1973 c.411 §15]
• 692.375   State Mortuary and Cemetery Board Account; disposition of receipts.
  The State Mortuary and Cemetery Board Account is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. All moneys received by the...
• 692.380   Courts having jurisdiction; initiation of proceedings.
  Circuit courts, justice courts and municipal courts sitting as justice courts have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts of the State of Oregon in all...
• 692.385   Enforcement proceedings instituted by board; relation to other enforcement provisions.
  (1) Whenever it appears to the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board that any person is engaged or about to engage in any acts or practices...
• 692.387   Availability of inspection warrants; effect.
  Upon application of the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board, or any public officer, agent or employee of the board acting in the course of official...
• 692.389   Issuance of inspection warrant upon cause; supporting affidavit; cause of issuance of warrant.
  (1) An inspection warrant shall be issued only upon cause, supported by affidavit, particularly describing the applicant’s status in applying for the warrant under ORS...
• 692.391   Issuance of inspection warrant by magistrate; examination of applicant; contents and conditions of warrant.
  (1) Before issuing an inspection warrant, the magistrate may examine under oath the applicant and any other witness until satisfied of the existence of grounds...
• 692.393   Execution of inspection warrant; presentation of credentials; authority and purpose; time of expiration.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, in executing an inspection warrant, the person authorized to execute the warrant shall, before entry,...
• 692.405   Identifying receptacle.
  The funeral service practitioner or person acting as such shall be responsible for causing to be affixed to each receptacle, as defined by rule of...
• 692.990   Penalties.
  Violation of ORS 692.025 is a misdemeanor. [Amended by 1957 c.596 §9; 1983 c.810 §25] _______________

Last modified: August 7, 2008