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Laws and Rules
 
 
 
 
Licensee Alert: Death Registration Filing Fee Increase 
 
 
 
Oregon Mortuary and Cemetery Board rules, OAR chapter 830, effective July 1 2009 (PDF) *
 
Oregon Mortuary and Cemetery Board rules, OAR chapter 830 (direct link to Secretary of State)
 
Oregon Mortuary and Cemetery Board law, ORS chapter 692 Funeral Service Practitioners; Embalmers; Funeral Establishments; Cemetery and Crematory Operators
 
Rights and Duties Relating to Cemeteries, Human Bodies and Anatomical Gifts, ORS chapter 97
(prearranged funeral plans as trusts / Pioneer Cemetery Commission listing of cemeteries)
 
Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services, OAR 441, Division 930
(prearrangement and preconstruction plans funded by trusts)

 
Oregon Nonprofit Corporations, Cemeteries and Crematories, ORS 65.001 and 65.855 to 65.875 (cemeteries or crematories irreducible fund related)
 
Administration of Estates - Probate    OAR 141, Division 35 (Procedure for the administration of estates of decedents who die intestate without known heirs or with some missing heirs and to testate estates with missing heirs or missing devisees in accordance with ORS 111 through 119.)
 
Initiation of Estate Proceedings, ORS 113.095 (persons not qualified to act as personal representatives)
 
Notify State Lands within 48 hours when it appears there are no known heirs or a valid will. ORS 113.238
 
Oregon Land Special Assessments, ORS 308A.125 (historic cemeteries within exclusive farm use zones)
 
Way of necessity to historic cemeteries, ORS 376.197
 
Vital and Public Health Statistics System, ORS chapter 432 (death certificates and disinterment permits)
 
Department of Human Services, Public Health, OAR 333, Division 11 (vital statistics)
 
Investigations of Deaths, Injuries and Missing Persons, ORS chapter 146
 
Offenses against Public Order, ORS 166.076 (abuse of a memorial to the dead) and ORS 166.085 and 166.087 (abuse of corpse)
 
Workers´ Compensation death benefit, ORS 656.202 and 656.204
 
Auto insurance death benefit, ORS 742.520(1); 742.524(1) and (1)(d) and 742.530(1) and (1)(a) and (1)(b)
 
FTC Funeral Rule, 16 CFR Part 453, Complying with the Funeral Rule, A Business Guide 
 
 
Can't find the law or rule?  Please contact the Board for assistance.
 
Oregon Mortuary and Cemetery Board
800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 430
Portland OR 97232-2195
971-673-1500
971-673-1501 - fax
                                                      Contact the Board via email
 
This page was last updated August 6 2009.
(* indicates added on that date)

 
Page updated: August 06, 2009

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