Section 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 remains are brought to the medical examiner’s attention, notify and provide to the Superintendent of State Police or the superintendent’s designee all information in the medical examiner’s records concerning the […]
Section 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 missing persons cases, particularly those involving minor children, are investigated as soon as possible, utilizing all available resources. In adopting policies under this section, Oregon law enforcement agencies may consider […]
Section 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 state and federal records maintained for that purpose, a report of the missing person in a format and according to procedures established by the authorities responsible respectively for the state […]
Section 146.184 – Medical practitioners to provide information about missing persons.
(1) A dentist, denturist, physician, naturopathic physician, optometrist or other medical practitioner, upon receipt of a written request from a law enforcement agency for identifying information pursuant to ORS 146.181, shall provide to the agency any information known to the practitioner upon the request forms provided by the agency. (2) Information obtained under this section […]
Section 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 law enforcement agency that accepted the missing persons report shall attempt to obtain a DNA sample from the missing person or from family members of the missing person in addition […]
Section 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 pathologist to remove and retain body tissues or organs from the deceased for the purpose of the legal or medical determination of the manner or cause of death, or other […]
Section 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, cremation or reduction permit, or a report of death completed and signed by a medical examiner. (2) When a medical examiner investigates the death of a person whose body is not […]
Section 146.125 – Disposition of personal property.
(1) The medical examiner, medical-legal death investigator, district attorney or sheriff may temporarily retain possession of any property found on the body or in the possession of the deceased that in the opinion of the medical examiner, medical-legal death investigator, district attorney or sheriff may be useful in establishing the cause or manner of death […]
Section 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 unknown circumstances; (b) Resulting from the unlawful use of controlled substances or the use or abuse of chemicals or toxic agents; (c) Occurring while incarcerated in any jail, correction facility […]
Section 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 the investigation of all deaths requiring investigation. (2) The medical examiner shall certify the manner and the cause of all deaths which the medical examiner is required to investigate. The […]