Source: https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/146.035
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ORS 146.035 - State Medical Examiner - 2015 Oregon Revised Statutes
2015 ORS Vol. 4 Chapter 146 Section 146.035
2015 ORS 146.035¹
(1) There is established within the Department of State Police the State Medical Examiner’s office for the purpose of directing and supporting the state death investigation program.
(5) Notwithstanding ORS 192.501 (Public records conditionally exempt from disclosure) (36):
(a) Any parent, spouse, sibling, child or personal representative of the deceased, or any person who may be criminally or civilly liable for the death, or their authorized representatives respectively, may examine and obtain copies of any medical examiner’s report, autopsy report or laboratory test report ordered by a medical examiner under ORS 146.117 (Autopsies).
(b) The system described in ORS 192.517 (Access to records of individual with disability or individual with mental illness) (1) shall have access to reports described in this subsection as provided in ORS 192.517 (Access to records of individual with disability or individual with mental illness). [1973 c.408 §4; 1987 c.142 §1; 1995 c.504 §3; 1995 c.744 §8; 2003 c.14 §60; 2005 c.498 §1; 2009 c.222 §§3,5; 2011 c.9 §7; 2013 c.1 §§6,7; 2015 c.14 §3]
See also annota­tions under ORS 146.040 in permanent edi­tion.
Provision that allows parent, spouse, child and other specified per­sons to examine and obtain copies of reports ordered by medical examiner does not imply, by negative inference, that those reports are exempt from disclosure for all other per­sons. Colby v. Gunson, 224 Or App 666, 199 P3d 350 (2008)