{"data":{"id":"us-or/ors-146.085","jurisdiction":"us-or","citation":"ORS 146.085","heading":"Medical-legal death investigators.","body":"(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.\n      (2) The district medical examiner and the district attorney shall establish qualifications for medical-legal death investigators.\n      (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.\n      (4) A medical-legal death investigator shall investigate deaths subject to the control and direction of the district medical examiner or the district attorney.\n      (5) A medical-legal death investigator may authorize the removal of the body of a deceased person from the apparent place of death.\n      (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.","path":["04 - Criminal Procedure, Crimes","14. Procedure in Criminal Matters Generally","Chapter 146 — Investigations of Deaths, Injuries and Missing Persons"],"source_url":"https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors146.html","current_through":"2025 Edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T23:50:11Z","sha256":"59f8a965aa42c20391e24e69dcf465cacaef6af4fdce061cb3f3d1d638d8f35d","source_id":"us-or","stale":false,"prev":"us-or/ors-146.080","next":"us-or/ors-146.087"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}