2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 097 - Rights and Duties Relating to Cemeteries, Human Bodies and Anatomical Gift
Section 97.846 - Agreements for care.


(2) Upon the application of an owner of any plot, and upon the payment by the owner of the amount fixed as a reasonable and proportionate contribution for endowed care, a cemetery authority may enter into an agreement with the owner for the care of the plot of the owner and its appurtenances. [Formerly 97.860]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 03 - Landlord-Tenant, Domestic Relations, Probate

Chapter 097 - Rights and Duties Relating to Cemeteries, Human Bodies and Anatomical Gift

Section 97.010 - Definitions.

Section 97.020 - Exemption of certain organizations and cemeteries from certain sections of chapter.

Section 97.082 - Consent for certain autopsies; form.

Section 97.130 - Right to control disposition of remains; delegation.

Section 97.145 - Liability for failure to conform to written instrument directing control of remains.

Section 97.150 - Disposition of cremated remains; procedures; notice; limitations on liability.

Section 97.153 - Diagnostic or therapeutic radioisotopes in body.

Section 97.160 - Duty of hospital or sanitarium to notify before sending remains to undertaker; procedures.

Section 97.170 - Disposition of unclaimed body of deceased person; rules.

Section 97.200 - Disposition of remains after use.

Section 97.220 - Disinterment.

Section 97.223 - Interment or temporary storage of human remains in case of natural disaster or other emergency.

Section 97.310 - Survey and subdivision of land; map or plat of mausoleum or columbarium; access easement.

Section 97.360 - Resurvey and alteration in shape or size; vacation of streets, walks, driveways and parks and replatting into lots.

Section 97.440 - Removal of dedication.

Section 97.450 - Discontinuance of cemetery and removal of remains and markers.

Section 97.460 - Requirements for establishment of cemetery or burial park.

Section 97.510 - Sale and conveyance of plots by cemetery authority.

Section 97.570 - Spouse has vested right of interment.

Section 97.630 - Family plots; order of occupation.

Section 97.660 - Lands of cemetery, crematory or reduction corporation; exemption from execution, taxation and condemnation.

Section 97.665 - Revenues; restrictions on uses of revenue.

Section 97.670 - Selling land unsuited for burials.

Section 97.675 - Burial lots or space; use; exemption from taxation, execution and liens; lien for purchase price of gravestone.

Section 97.680 - Recording plan; power to improve and regulate grounds.

Section 97.710 - Power of cemetery authority to make rules and regulations.

Section 97.720 - Record of interments, cremations and reductions; inspection.

Section 97.725 - Disposal of unclaimed burial spaces; notice; form of notice; claims.

Section 97.740 - Definitions for ORS 97.740 to 97.760.

Section 97.745 - Prohibited acts; application; notice.

Section 97.750 - Permitted acts; notice.

Section 97.760 - Civil action by Indian tribe or member; time for commencing action; venue; damages; attorney fees.

Section 97.772 - Definition of "historic cemetery."

Section 97.774 - Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries; terms.

Section 97.776 - Commission members; nominations.

Section 97.778 - Chairperson; quorum; meetings.

Section 97.780 - Duties.

Section 97.782 - Listing of historic cemeteries; form.

Section 97.784 - Executive secretary; support services.

Section 97.810 - Endowment care and nonendowed care cemeteries.

Section 97.813 - Standards of care for and public access to endowment care cemeteries; rules.

Section 97.820 - Placing cemetery under endowed care; deposit; commingling endowment and special care funds; trustee or custodian of fund.

Section 97.823 - Prohibitions related to endowment care cemeteries.

Section 97.825 - Suits to enforce endowed care statutes; attorney fees.

Section 97.830 - Investment and reinvestment of principal of endowed care funds; use and application of income.

Section 97.846 - Agreements for care.

Section 97.849 - Authority of Department of Consumer and Business Services to take action regarding endowment care cemetery.

Section 97.852 - Receivership of endowment care cemetery.

Section 97.865 - Application of ORS 97.810 to 97.865 to religious, county and city cemeteries.

Section 97.870 - Unused and uncared for portions of cemetery declared common nuisances.

Section 97.890 - Complaint.

Section 97.900 - Summons.

Section 97.923 - Definitions for ORS 97.923 to 97.949.

Section 97.925 - Purpose.

Section 97.926 - Rulemaking authority.

Section 97.927 - Applicability of ORS 97.923 to 97.949.

Section 97.928 - Prohibitions.

Section 97.929 - Exceptions to ORS 97.923 to 97.949.

Section 97.931 - Registration of salesperson for endowment care cemeteries, preconstruction sales and prearrangement sales; rules; background check; civil penalties.

Section 97.933 - Certification of provider of prearrangement or preconstruction sales; annual reports; rules; audits; fees.

Section 97.935 - Registration of master trustees; annual reports; rules; annual audits; fees.

Section 97.936 - Emergency orders of suspension or restriction.

Section 97.937 - Deposit of trust funds made by endowment care cemeteries.

Section 97.939 - Prearrangement or preconstruction sales contracts; contents; delivery.

Section 97.941 - Prearrangement or preconstruction trust fund deposits.

Section 97.942 - Appointment of receiver; criteria.

Section 97.943 - Distributions from prearrangement trust fund deposits.

Section 97.944 - Distributions from preconstruction trust fund deposits.

Section 97.945 - Funeral and Cemetery Consumer Protection Trust Fund; fee; rules; maximum balance.

Section 97.946 - Advertising and marketing prohibitions.

Section 97.947 - Examination of providers and master trustees by director; subpoena power; depositions.

Section 97.948 - Grounds for discipline by director for violation of ORS 97.923 to 97.949; suspension and revocation of certificate or registration; civil penalties; notification of board.

Section 97.949 - Notification by director to appropriate federal, state or local law enforcement officer of violation of ORS 97.923 to 97.949.

Section 97.951 - Short title.

Section 97.953 - Definitions for ORS 97.951 to 97.982.

Section 97.955 - Purpose of anatomical gift; persons authorized to make gift.

Section 97.957 - Methods of making anatomical gift before death of donor.

Section 97.959 - Revocation or amendment of anatomical gift by donor or agent or guardian of donor.

Section 97.961 - Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal.

Section 97.963 - Effect of making, amending or revoking anatomical gift.

Section 97.965 - Persons authorized to make anatomical gift of body or body part of decedent.

Section 97.967 - Methods for making, amending or revoking anatomical gift of body or body part of decedent by authorized person.

Section 97.969 - Authorized recipients of anatomical gifts; purposes for which gift may be used.

Section 97.970 - Search for document of anatomical gift or refusal; duty to send document or refusal to hospital.

Section 97.971 - Delivery of document of gift or refusal not required; right to examine.

Section 97.972 - Rights and duties of procurement organizations and others; authorized examinations.

Section 97.973 - Coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts.

Section 97.974 - Immunity of persons acting in accordance with ORS 97.951 to 97.982.

Section 97.976 - Law governing validity of document of gift; presumption of validity.

Section 97.977 - Donor registry; duty of Department of Transportation to cooperate with donor registry.

Section 97.978 - Resolution of conflict between potential anatomical gift and advance directive.

Section 97.979 - Cooperation between medical examiner and procurement organization.

Section 97.980 - Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction of medical examiner.

Section 97.981 - Purchase or sale of body parts prohibited.

Section 97.982 - Alteration of document of anatomical gift prohibited.

Section 97.983 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

Section 97.985 - Transplants not covered by implied warranty.

Section 97.987 - Department of Transportation use of federal moneys for cemetery care.

Section 97.990 - Penalties.

Section 97.992 - Penalties for ORS 97.937.

Section 97.994 - Penalties for ORS 97.931, 97.933, 97.941 and 97.943.