ORS Chapter 146: Investigations of Deaths, Injuries and Missing Persons
Oregon Criminal Procedure (ORS Title 14) – 2026
§ 146.003
Definitions for ORS 146.003 to 146.189 and 146.710 to 146.992
§ 146.015
State Medical Examiner Advisory Board; appointment of Chief Medical Examiner; rules
§ 146.025
Functions of board
§ 146.035
Chief Medical Examiner; personnel; records; right to examine records
§ 146.045
Duties of Chief Medical Examiner; persons missing at sea, in wilderness or in forested environment
§ 146.055
Advice; autopsies; training programs; report
§ 146.065
Local medical examiners; appointment; Deputy State Medical Examiner
§ 146.075
District office duties; personnel; expenses for certain duties; records and reports
§ 146.080
Assistant district medical examiner
§ 146.085
Medical-legal death investigators
§ 146.088
Officer or employee of public body
§ 146.090
Deaths requiring investigation
§ 146.095
Investigation; certification; report; training
§ 146.100
Where death considered to have occurred; notification of death required
§ 146.102
Guidance concerning overdose death communication; notification
§ 146.103
Removal of body, effects or weapons prohibited without consent
§ 146.107
Authority to enter and secure certain premises; court order
§ 146.109
Notification of next of kin
§ 146.113
Authority to order removal of body fluids
§ 146.117
Autopsies
§ 146.121
Disposition of body; filing; expenses
§ 146.125
Disposition of personal property
§ 146.135
Authority to order inquest
§ 146.145
Jury of inquest
§ 146.155
Inquest proceedings
§ 146.165
Verdict; findings; testimony and verdict of inquest as admissible evidence in subsequent proceedings
§ 146.171
Unidentified human remains; maintenance of records
§ 146.174
Medical examiner to provide information about unidentified human remains; identification
§ 146.177
Procedures for investigating missing persons
§ 146.181
Missing persons; police report; supplementary report
§ 146.184
Medical practitioners to provide information about missing persons
§ 146.187
DNA sample
§ 146.189
Use of records to identify human remains and missing persons; disposition of records
§ 146.710
Definition for ORS 146.710 to 146.780
§ 146.730
Investigation
§ 146.740
Reports of medical examiner
§ 146.750
Injuries to be reported to law enforcement agency
§ 146.760
Immunity of participant in making of report
§ 146.780
Confidentiality of records and reports
§ 146.992
Penalties
§ 146.001
[Formerly 146.087; repealed by 1987 c.517 §1 (432.300 enacted in lieu of 146.001)]
§ 146.005
[1959 c.629 §8; 1965 c.221 §14; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.010
[Amended by 1959 c.629 §16; renumbered 10.810]
§ 146.020
[Renumbered 10.820]
§ 146.030
[1959 c.629 §10; 1965 c.221 §15; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.040
[1959 c.629 §1; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.050
[1959 c.629 §2; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.060
[1959 c.629 §3; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.070
[1959 c.629 §4; 1969 c.314 §8; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.087
[1975 c.565 §1; renumbered 146.001]
§ 146.105
[1959 c.629 §7; repealed by 1965 c.221 §7]
§ 146.110
[Amended by 1959 c.629 §34; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.115
[Amended by 1955 c.190 §1; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.120
[Amended by 1959 c.629 §35; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.130
[Amended by 1959 c.629 §36; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.140
[Amended by 1959 c.629 §37; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.150
[Amended by 1959 c.629 §38; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.160
[Amended by 1959 c.629 §39; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.170
[Amended by 1955 c.161 §1; 1959 c.629 §40; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.180
[Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.190
[Amended by 1959 c.629 §41; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.200
[Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.210
[Amended by 1959 c.629 §42; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.220
[Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.230
[Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.240
[Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.250
[Amended by 1953 c.568 §3; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.260
[Amended by 1953 c.568 §3; repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.270
[Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.280
[Repealed by 1965 c.221 §27]
§ 146.310
[1965 c.221 §2; 1971 c.487 §3; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.315
[1971 c.487 §2; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.320
[1965 c.221 §5; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.330
[1965 c.221 §3; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.340
[1965 c.221 §4; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.350
[1965 c.221 §6; 1971 c.487 §4; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.360
[1965 c.221 §7; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.370
[1965 c.221 §8; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.410
[1959 c.629 §6; 1965 c.221 §16; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.420
[1959 c.629 §9; 1963 c.98 §1; 1965 c.91 §1; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.430
[1959 c.629 §11; 1961 c.434 §3; 1965 c.91 §2; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.440
[1959 c.629 §12; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.450
[1959 c.629 §13; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.460
[1959 c.629 §14; repealed by 1965 c.91 §3 (146.461 enacted in lieu of 146.460)]
§ 146.461
[1965 c.91 §4 (enacted in lieu of 146.460); repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.470
[1959 c.629 §15; 1961 c.434 §4; 1965 c.91 §5; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.480
[1959 c.629 §17; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.490
[1959 c.629 §18; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.500
[1959 c.629 §19; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.505
[1983 c.390 §1; renumbered 146.171 in 2007]
§ 146.510
[1959 c.629 §20; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.515
[1983 c.390 §2; 2007 c.500 §5; renumbered 146.174 in 2007]
§ 146.520
[1959 c.629 §21; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.525
[1983 c.390 §3; 1989 c.1059 §3; 2007 c.500 §3; renumbered 146.181 in 2007]
§ 146.530
[1959 c.629 §22; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.535
[1983 c.390 §4; 2007 c.500 §6; renumbered 146.184 in 2007]
§ 146.540
[1959 c.629 §23; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.545
[1983 c.390 §5; 2007 c.500 §7; renumbered 146.189 in 2007]
§ 146.550
[1959 c.629 §24; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.560
[1959 c.629 §25; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.565
[1961 c.434 §2; 1965 c.91 §6; 1965 c.439 §4; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.570
[1959 c.629 §26; 1967 c.632 §1; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.580
[1959 c.629 §27; 1961 c.434 §5; 1967 c.632 §2; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.590
[1959 c.629 §§28,29; 1961 c.434 §6; 1967 c.632 §3; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.600
[1959 c.629 §30; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.610
[1959 c.629 §31; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]
§ 146.720
[1963 c.621 §§3,4; 1965 c.221 §17; repealed by 1965 c.472 §9]
§ 146.770
[1965 c.472 §6; 1971 c.451 §14; renumbered 418.775]
§ 146.990
[Subsection (1) enacted as 1959 c.629 §45; subsection (3) of 1963 Replacement Part enacted as 1963 c.621 §7; 1965 c.221 §20; 1965 c.472 §8; 1971 c.451 §16; repealed by 1973 c.408 §35]