ORS 146.103
Removal of body, effects or weapons prohibited without consent


(1)

In a death requiring an investigation, no person shall move a human body or body suspected of being human, or remove any of the effects of the deceased or instruments or weapons related to the death without the permission of a medical examiner, medical-legal death investigator or the district attorney.

(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]

Source: Section 146.103 — Removal of body, effects or weapons prohibited without consent, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors146.­html.

Notes of Decisions

Medical examiner’s right to take charge of body included rolling body over and making observations for later use as basis for search warrant. State v. Blasingame, 127 Or App 382, 873 P2d 361 (1994), Sup Ct review denied

146.003
Definitions for ORS 146.003 to 146.189 and 146.710 to 146.992
146.015
State Medical Examiner Advisory Board
146.025
Functions of board
146.035
Chief Medical Examiner
146.045
Duties of Chief Medical Examiner
146.055
Advice
146.065
Local medical examiners
146.075
District office duties
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
146.100
Where death considered to have occurred
146.103
Removal of body, effects or weapons prohibited without consent
146.107
Authority to enter and secure certain premises
146.109
Notification of next of kin
146.113
Authority to order removal of body fluids
146.117
Autopsies
146.121
Disposition of body
146.125
Disposition of personal property
146.135
Authority to order inquest
146.145
Jury of inquest
146.155
Inquest proceedings
146.165
Verdict
146.171
Unidentified human remains
146.174
Medical examiner to provide information about unidentified human remains
146.177
Procedures for investigating missing persons
146.181
Missing persons
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
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
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