(2) No person shall move or remove any of the items specified in subsection (1) of this section if the medical examiner or district attorney objects.
(3) A medical examiner, district attorney or medical-legal death investigator shall take custody of or exercise control over the body, the effects of the deceased and any weapons, instruments, vehicles, buildings or premises which the medical examiner, district attorney or medical-legal death investigator has reason to believe were involved in the death, in order to preserve evidence relating to the cause and manner of death.
(4) In a death requiring investigation, no person shall undress, embalm, cleanse the surface of the body or otherwise alter the appearance or the state of the body without the permission of the medical examiner or the district attorney. [1973 c.408 §14; 2017 c.151 §15]
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.