As used in ORS 146.003 to 146.189 and 146.710 to 146.992, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Approved laboratory" means a laboratory approved by the Chief Medical Examiner as competent to perform the blood sample analysis required by ORS
146.113(2).
(2) "Assistant district medical examiner" means a physician appointed by the district medical examiner to investigate and certify deaths within a county or district.
(3) "Cause of death" means the primary or basic disease process or injury ending life.
(4) "Death requiring investigation" means the death of a person occurring in any one of the circumstances set forth in ORS
146.090.
(5) "District medical examiner" means a physician appointed by the Chief Medical Examiner to investigate and certify deaths within a county or district, including a Deputy State Medical Examiner.
(6) "Law enforcement agency" means a county sheriff's office, municipal police department, police department established by a university under ORS
352.121 or
353.125 and the Oregon State Police.
(7) "Legal intervention" includes an execution pursuant to ORS
137.463,
137.467 and
137.473 and other legal use of force resulting in death.
(8) "Manner of death" means the designation of the probable mode of production of the cause of death, including natural, accidental, suicidal, homicidal, legal intervention or undetermined.
(9) "Medical examiner" means a physician appointed as provided by ORS
146.003 to
146.189 to investigate and certify the cause and manner of deaths requiring investigation, including the Chief Medical Examiner.
(10) "Medical-legal death investigator" means a person appointed by the district medical examiner to assist in the investigation of deaths within a county.
(11) "Pathologist" means a physician holding a current license to practice medicine and surgery and who is eligible for certification by the American Board of Pathology.
(12) "Unidentified human remains" does not include human remains that are unidentified human remains that are part of an archaeological site or suspected of being Native American and covered under ORS chapters 97 and 390 and ORS
358.905 to
358.961.
Amended by 2017 Ch. 151,§ 3, eff. 1/1/2018.
Amended by 2013 Ch. 180,§ 18, eff. 5/16/2013, op. 1/1/2014.
1973 c.408 §1a; 1995 c.744 §17; 2007 c. 500, § 1; 2011 c. 506, § 18