2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 146 - Investigations of Deaths, Injuries and Missing Persons
Section 146.035 - Chief Medical Examiner; personnel; records; right to examine records.


(2) The Chief Medical Examiner shall manage all aspects of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner’s program.
(3) Subject to the State Personnel Relations Law, the Chief Medical Examiner may employ or discharge other personnel of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
(4) The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shall:
(a) File and maintain appropriate reports on all deaths requiring investigation.
(b) Maintain an accurate list of all active district medical examiners, assistant district medical examiners and designated pathologists.
(c) Transmit monthly to the Department of Transportation a report for the preceding calendar month of all information obtained under ORS 146.113.
(5) Notwithstanding ORS 192.345 (36):
(a) Any parent, spouse, sibling, child or personal representative of the deceased, or any person who may be criminally or civilly liable for the death, or their authorized representatives respectively, may examine and obtain copies of any medical examiner’s report, autopsy report or laboratory test report ordered by a medical examiner under ORS 146.117.
(b) The system described in ORS 192.517 (1) shall have access to reports described in this subsection as provided in ORS 192.517. [1973 c.408 §4; 1987 c.142 §1; 1995 c.504 §3; 1995 c.744 §8; 2003 c.14 §60; 2005 c.498 §1; 2009 c.222 §§3,5; 2011 c.9 §7; 2013 c.1 §§6,7; 2015 c.14 §3; 2017 c.151 §6]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 04 - Criminal Procedure, Crimes

Chapter 146 - Investigations of Deaths, Injuries and Missing Persons

Section 146.003 - Definitions for ORS 146.003 to 146.189 and 146.710 to 146.992.

Section 146.015 - State Medical Examiner Advisory Board; appointment of Chief Medical Examiner; rules.

Section 146.025 - Functions of board.

Section 146.035 - Chief Medical Examiner; personnel; records; right to examine records.

Section 146.045 - Duties of Chief Medical Examiner; persons missing at sea, in wilderness or in forested environment.

Section 146.055 - Advice; autopsies; training programs; report.

Section 146.065 - Local medical examiners; appointment; Deputy State Medical Examiner.

Section 146.075 - District office duties; personnel; expenses for certain duties; records and reports.

Section 146.080 - Assistant district medical examiner.

Section 146.085 - Medical-legal death investigators.

Section 146.090 - Deaths requiring investigation.

Section 146.095 - Investigation; certification; report; training.

Section 146.100 - Where death considered to have occurred; notification of death required.

Section 146.103 - Removal of body, effects or weapons prohibited without consent.

Section 146.107 - Authority to enter and secure certain premises; court order.

Section 146.109 - Notification of next of kin.

Section 146.113 - Authority to order removal of body fluids.

Section 146.117 - Autopsies.

Section 146.121 - Disposition of body; filing; expenses.

Section 146.125 - Disposition of personal property.

Section 146.135 - Authority to order inquest.

Section 146.145 - Jury of inquest.

Section 146.155 - Inquest proceedings.

Section 146.165 - Verdict; findings; testimony and verdict of inquest as admissible evidence in subsequent proceedings.

Section 146.171 - Unidentified human remains; maintenance of records.

Section 146.174 - Medical examiner to provide information about unidentified human remains; identification.

Section 146.177 - Procedures for investigating missing persons.

Section 146.181 - Missing persons; police report; supplementary report.

Section 146.184 - Medical practitioners to provide information about missing persons.

Section 146.187 - DNA sample.

Section 146.189 - Use of records to identify human remains and missing persons; disposition of records.

Section 146.710 - Definition for ORS 146.710 to 146.780.

Section 146.750 - Injuries to be reported to law enforcement agency.

Section 146.992 - Penalties.