Or. Rev. Stat. § 146.085
Medical-legal death investigators
Oregon · Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 146 — Investigations of Deaths, Injuries and Missing Persons · Status: effective
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- Or. Rev. Stat. § 146.085, Medical-legal death investigators, Oregon, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-04, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2469142
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(1) The district medical examiner shall appoint, subject to the approval of the district attorney and applicable civil service regulations, qualified medical-legal death investigators, including the sheriff or a deputy sheriff and a member of the Oregon State Police for each county. Other peace officers may also be appointed as medical-legal death investigators.
(2) The district medical examiner and the district attorney shall establish qualifications for medical-legal death investigators.
(3) Each medical-legal death investigator shall be individually appointed and the name of the medical-legal death investigator shall be on file in the office of the district medical examiner.
(4) A medical-legal death investigator shall investigate deaths subject to the control and direction of the district medical examiner or the district attorney.
(5) A medical-legal death investigator may authorize the removal of the body of a deceased person from the apparent place of death.
(6) The medical-legal death investigator may not authorize embalming, order a post-mortem examination or autopsy, or certify the cause and manner of death.