OAR 830-030-0080: Requirements for the Holding of Funerals
Edition: Current OARD snapshotEffective: 2017-08-01Last verified: 2026-09-07
(1) If a public or private funeral service and/or public viewing is desired over an unembalmed refrigerated human remains, the unembalmed human remains shall not be removed from refrigeration for longer than a total of six hours. No public or private funeral service or public viewing shall be held over the remains of an unwashed, human remains. (2) No public viewing shall be held over the unembalmed remains of persons who have died of or with any communicable diseases referred to in OAR 830-030-0070 and/or cited by Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division in cases of emerging/changing public health concerns. (3) Nothing in this section is meant to limit or discourage identification or private viewing of an unwashed, unembalmed human remains by family members or hinder religious customs.
Official history and status
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 183.341, 183.545, 692.160 & 692.320
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 692.025
History: MCB 3-2017, f. 7-13-17, cert. ef. 8-1-17 MCB 1-1998, f. & cert. ef. 6-22-98 MCB 1-1997, f. 6-18-97, cert. ef. 7-1-97 MCB 1-1993, f. 4-14-93, cert. ef. 4-16-93 MCB 1-1989, f. & cert. ef. 2-6-89 MCB 1-1986, f. & cert. ef. 10-21-86, Renumbered from 830-010-0165 SMB 1-1984, f. & cert. ef. 10-22-84 FDB 1-1979, f. & cert. ef. 2-21-79 FDB 13, f. 9-9-74, cert. ef. 3-1-75
This rule cites
- OAR 830-030-0070 — resolved
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