(2) All expenses of equipping, maintaining and operating the district medical examiner’s office, including the compensation of the district medical examiner and assistant district medical examiners, shall be paid by the county or counties of the district from funds budgeted for such purpose.
(3) When a district medical examiner also serves as local health officer, the county shall separately budget the compensation and expenses to be paid for medical examiner’s duties.
(4) All expenses of death investigations shall be paid from county funds budgeted for such purpose except that, in counties under 200,000 population upon the approval of the Chief Medical Examiner, one-half of the costs of autopsies ordered under ORS 146.117 shall be paid annually by the state from funds for such purpose. If funds available for this payment are insufficient to meet one-half of these costs, even proportional payments to the counties shall be made.
(5) Expenses of burial or other disposition of an unclaimed body shall be paid by the county where the death occurs, as provided by ORS 146.100 (2), in the manner provided by ORS 146.121 (4).
(6) Each district office shall maintain copies of the:
(a) Reports of death investigation by the medical examiner;
(b) Autopsy reports;
(c) Laboratory analysis reports; and
(d) Inventories of money or property of the deceased taken into custody during the investigation.
(7) Reports and inventories maintained by the district office shall be available for inspection as provided by ORS 146.035 (5).
(8) Copies of reports of death investigations by medical examiners and autopsy reports shall be forwarded to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
(9) Each district office shall maintain current records of:
(a) All assistant district medical examiners appointed.
(b) Appointments of each medical-legal death investigator appointed for the county or district.
(c) The name, address and director of each licensed funeral home located within the county or district.
(10) Each district office shall immediately in writing notify the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of all appointments and resignations of their medical examiners. [1973 c.408 §8; 1987 c.142 §2; 2015 c.736 §51; 2017 c.151 §10]
Structure 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 146.025 - Functions of board.
Section 146.035 - Chief Medical Examiner; personnel; records; right to examine records.
Section 146.055 - Advice; autopsies; training programs; report.
Section 146.065 - Local medical examiners; appointment; Deputy State Medical Examiner.
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 146.121 - 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 146.171 - Unidentified human remains; maintenance of records.
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 146.710 - Definition for ORS 146.710 to 146.780.
Section 146.750 - Injuries to be reported to law enforcement agency.