Oregon § 97.990 Penalties

Oregon Statutes

§ 97.990 — Penalties

Oregon § 97.990

Vol.3

Title 10Property Rights and Transactions

Ch.97

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Or. Rev. Stat. § 97.990 (2026).

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(1)Violation of ORS 97.160 is a Class A misdemeanor.

(2)Every officer, agent or employee of this state or of any county, city or any other municipal subdivision thereof who willfully neglects to notify the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board of the existence of a body as required by ORS 97.170 to 97.210 or who refuses to deliver possession of such body according to the provisions of ORS 97.170 to 97.210 or who mutilates or permits any such body to be mutilated so that it is not valuable for anatomical purposes or who refuses or neglects to perform any of the duties enjoined upon the officer, agent or employee by ORS 97.170 to 97.210, commits a Class A misdemeanor.

(3)Violation of ORS 97.520, 97.530 or 97.540 is a Class A misdemeanor.

(4)Any person, association or corporation who operates

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(1) Violation of ORS 97.160 is a Class A misdemeanor.
(2) Every officer, agent or employee of this state or of any county, city or any other municipal subdivision thereof who willfully neglects to notify the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board of the existence of a body as required by ORS 97.170 to 97.210 or who refuses to deliver possession of such body according to the provisions of ORS 97.170 to 97.210 or who mutilates or permits any such body to be mutilated so that it is not valuable for anatomical purposes or who refuses or neglects to perform any of the duties enjoined upon the officer, agent or employee by ORS 97.170 to 97.210, commits a Class A misdemeanor.
(3) Violation of ORS 97.520, 97.530 or 97.540 is a Class A misdemeanor.
(4) Any person, association or corporation who operates a cemetery, mausoleum or columbarium contrary to the provisions of ORS 97.020 to 97.040, 97.110 to 97.130, 97.145, 97.150, 97.220, 97.310 to 97.360 (1), 97.440, 97.510 to 97.560, 97.710, 97.720, 97.810, 97.820, 97.830 and 97.840 to 97.846 commits a Class B misdemeanor.
(5)(a) Violation of ORS 97.745 is a Class C felony.
(b) In addition to any other sentence provided by law for criminal violations of ORS 97.745, the judge shall impose a penalty not to exceed $10,000 on any person convicted of a criminal violation of ORS 97.745.
(6) In addition to the penalty of subsection (5) of this section, any native Indian artifacts or human remains taken by, or in possession of, any person sentenced under subsection (5) of this section and all equipment used in the violation may be ordered forfeited by the court in which conviction occurs, and may be disposed of as the court directs. [Subsections (5) to (7) enacted as 1977 c.183 §12; subsection (8) enacted as 1977 c.647 §4; 1979 c.420 §3; 1983 c.526 §6; 1985 c.198 §5; subsections (5) to (7) renumbered 127.990 in 1991; subsection (5)(b) of 1995 Edition enacted as 1995 c.543 §3; 2011 c.597 §156; 2015 c.651 §5]