Oregon Code — 97
Browse 149 sections in division 97 of the Oregon code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 97.010. Definitions
- § 97.012. Exclusion of services and merchandise offered under transportation protection agreement
- § 97.020. Exemption of certain organizations and cemeteries from certain sections of chapter
- § 97.030. Vested rights not acquired
- § 97.040. Private family burial grounds
- § 97.082. Consent for certain autopsies; form
- § 97.110. Human remains not to be attached
- § 97.120. Human remains to be deposited in accordance with ORS 97.010 to 97.040, 97.110 to 97.450, 97.510 to 97.730, 97.810 to 97.920 and 97.990
- § 97.130. Right to control disposition of remains; delegation
- § 97.145. Liability for failure to conform to written instrument directing control of remains
- § 97.150. Disposition of cremated remains; procedures; notice; limitations on liability
- § 97.153. Diagnostic or therapeutic radioisotopes in body
- § 97.160. Duty of hospital or sanitarium to notify before sending remains to undertaker; procedures
- § 97.170. Disposition of unclaimed body of deceased person; rules
- § 97.180. Period within which body may not be used or dismembered
- § 97.190. Post-mortem examination of body
- § 97.200. Disposition of remains after use
- § 97.205. Prohibition against accepting consideration for public display of human remains; exceptions
- § 97.207. Civil action by decedent s estate authorized for unlawful public display of remains
- § 97.210. Exceptions to application of ORS 97.170 to 97.200; rules
- § 97.220. Disinterment
- § 97.223. Interment or temporary storage of human remains in case of natural disaster or other emergency
- § 97.231. Definitions
- § 97.234. County designation of veterans remains coordinator; identification and interment of unclaimed cremated remains of veterans
- § 97.237. Veterans remains coordinator to report to county veterans service officer before interment of eligible decedent; officer to maintain record of reported information
- § 97.240. Funeral establishment assistance to veterans remains coordinator regarding veterans remains; civil claims against funeral establishment or veterans remains coordinator barred
- § 97.243. Veterans remains coordinator to report veteran status information to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and maintain list of reported eligible decedents
- § 97.246. Veterans remains coordinator and county veterans service officer to carry out duties per Department of Veterans Affairs rules
- § 97.310. Survey and subdivision of land; map or plat of mausoleum or columbarium; access easement
- § 97.320. Filing map or plat and declaration of dedication of land to cemetery purposes
- § 97.330. When dedication is complete
- § 97.340. Effect of dedication
- § 97.350. Dedication to cemetery purposes not invalid
- § 97.360. Resurvey and alteration in shape or size; vacation of streets, walks, driveways and parks and replatting into lots
- § 97.370. Fixing date of hearing; notice
- § 97.380. Hearing; order allowing replatting
- § 97.390. Assessment of benefits and damages
- § 97.400. Disposal of newly created lots; disposition and use of proceeds from sale; failure of owner to perform duties
- § 97.410. Right of adjacent lot owner upon vacation of way
- § 97.420. Effect of failure to object
- § 97.430. Declaration of exercise of police power and right of eminent domain
- § 97.440. Removal of dedication
- § 97.445. Vacating county interest in cemetery real property
- § 97.450. Discontinuance of cemetery and removal of remains and markers
- § 97.460. Requirements for establishment of cemetery or burial park
- § 97.510. Sale and conveyance of plots by cemetery authority
- § 97.520. Sale or offer to sell cemetery plot upon promise of resale at financial profit
- § 97.530. Commission, bonus or rebate for sale of plot or services
- § 97.540. Commission, bonus or rebate for recommendation of cemetery
- § 97.550. Plots are indivisible
- § 97.560. Presumption of sole ownership in grantee of plot
- § 97.570. Spouse has vested right of interment
- § 97.580. Divestiture of spouse s right of interment
- § 97.590. Transfer of plot or right of interment
- § 97.600. Descent of plot
- § 97.610. Determining occupant of burial plot having co-owners
- § 97.620. Death of co-owner; authorization to use plot under directions of surviving owners
- § 97.630. Family plots; order of occupation
- § 97.640. Waiver or termination of vested right of interment
- § 97.650. Limitations upon vested right of interment
- § 97.660. Lands of cemetery, crematory or reduction corporation; exemption from execution, taxation and condemnation
- § 97.665. Revenues; restrictions on uses of revenue
- § 97.670. Selling land unsuited for burials
- § 97.675. Burial lots or space; use; exemption from taxation, execution and liens; lien for purchase price of gravestone
- § 97.680. Recording plan; power to improve and regulate grounds
- § 97.710. Power of cemetery authority to make rules and regulations
- § 97.720. Record of interments, cremations and reductions; inspection
- § 97.725. Disposal of unclaimed burial spaces; notice; form of notice; claims
- § 97.730. Gifts and bequests in trust for cemeteries
- § 97.740. Definitions for ORS 97.740 to 97.760
- § 97.745. Prohibited acts; application; notice
- § 97.750. Permitted acts; notice
- § 97.760. Civil action by Indian tribe or member; time for commencing action; venue; damages; attorney fees
- § 97.772. Definition of historic cemetery
- § 97.774. Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries; terms
- § 97.776. Commission members; nominations
- § 97.778. Chairperson; quorum; meetings
- § 97.780. Duties
- § 97.782. Listing of historic cemeteries; form
- § 97.784. Executive secretary; support services
- § 97.810. Endowment care and nonendowed care cemeteries
- § 97.813. Standards of care for and public access to endowment care cemeteries; rules
- § 97.820. Placing cemetery under endowed care; deposit; commingling endowment and special care funds; trustee or custodian of fund
- § 97.823. Prohibitions related to endowment care cemeteries
- § 97.825. Suits to enforce endowed care statutes; attorney fees
- § 97.830. Investment and reinvestment of principal of endowed care funds; use and application of income
- § 97.835. Limitation of duties and liability of trustee
- § 97.840. Cemetery authority authorized to receive and hold gifts of property; disposition of gifts
- § 97.843. Endowment and special care funds are charitable
- § 97.846. Agreements for care
- § 97.849. Authority of Department of Consumer and Business Services to take action regarding endowment care cemetery
- § 97.852. Receivership of endowment care cemetery
- § 97.865. Application of ORS 97.810 to 97.865 to religious, county and city cemeteries
- § 97.870. Unused and uncared for portions of cemetery declared common nuisances
- § 97.880. Resolution declaring a nuisance
- § 97.890. Complaint
- § 97.900. Summons
- § 97.910. Disuse as prima facie evidence of abandonment
- § 97.920. Judgment declaring nuisance, authorizing abatement and creating and foreclosing lien
- § 97.923. Definitions for ORS 97.923 to 97.949
- § 97.925. Purpose
- § 97.926. Rulemaking authority
- § 97.927. Applicability of ORS 97.923 to 97.949
- § 97.928. Prohibitions
- § 97.929. Exceptions to ORS 97.923 to 97.949
- § 97.931. Registration of salesperson for endowment care cemeteries, preconstruction sales and prearrangement sales; rules; background check; civil penalties
- § 97.933. Certification of provider of prearrangement or preconstruction sales; rules; annual reports; audits; fees
- § 97.935. Registration of master trustees; annual reports; rules; annual audits; fees;
- § 97.936. Emergency orders of suspension or restriction
- § 97.937. Deposit of trust funds made by endowment care cemeteries
- § 97.939. Prearrangement or preconstruction sales contracts; contents; delivery
- § 97.941. Prearrangement or preconstruction trust fund deposits
- § 97.942. Appointment of receiver; criteria
- § 97.943. Distributions from prearrangement trust fund deposits
- § 97.944. Distributions from preconstruction trust fund deposits
- § 97.945. Funeral and Cemetery Consumer Protection Trust Fund; fee; rules; maximum balance
- § 97.946. Advertising and marketing prohibitions
- § 97.947. Examination of providers and master trustees by director; subpoena power; depositions
- § 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
- § 97.949. Notification by director to appropriate federal, state or local law enforcement officer of violation of ORS 97.923 to 97.949
- § 97.951. Short title
- § 97.953. Definitions for ORS 97.951 to 97.982
- § 97.955. Purpose of anatomical gift; persons authorized to make gift
- § 97.957. Methods of making anatomical gift before death of donor
- § 97.959. Revocation or amendment of anatomical gift by donor or agent or guardian of donor
- § 97.961. Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal
- § 97.963. Effect of making, amending or revoking anatomical gift
- § 97.965. Persons authorized to make anatomical gift of body or body part of decedent
- § 97.967. Methods for making, amending or revoking anatomical gift of body or body part of decedent by authorized person
- § 97.969. Authorized recipients of anatomical gifts; purposes for which gift may be used
- § 97.970. Search for document of anatomical gift or refusal; duty to send document or refusal to hospital
- § 97.971. Delivery of document of gift or refusal not required; right to examine
- § 97.972. Rights and duties of procurement organizations and others; authorized examinations
- § 97.973. Coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts
- § 97.974. Immunity of persons acting in accordance with ORS 97.951 to 97.982
- § 97.976. Law governing validity of document of gift; presumption of validity
- § 97.977. Donor registry; duty of Department of Transportation to cooperate with donor registry
- § 97.978. Resolution of conflict between potential anatomical gift and advance directive
- § 97.979. Cooperation between medical examiner and procurement organization
- § 97.980. Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction of medical examiner
- § 97.981. Purchase or sale of body parts prohibited
- § 97.982. Alteration of document of anatomical gift prohibited
- § 97.983. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
- § 97.984. Liability of executor who carries out anatomical gift
- § 97.985. Transplants not covered by implied warranty
- § 97.987. Department of Transportation use of federal moneys for cemetery care
- § 97.990. Penalties
- § 97.992. Penalties for ORS 97.937
- § 97.994. Penalties for ORS 97.931, 97.933, 97.941 and 97.943