Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 692 > General Provisions

• Board: means the State Mortuary and Cemetery Board. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
• Cemetery: means any one, or a combination of more than one, of the following, in a place used, or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery purposes:

  (a) A burial park, for earth interments;

  (b) A mausoleum, for crypt interments;

  (c) A columbarium, for permanent interments of cremated or reduced remains;

  (d) A scattering garden or other designated area above or below ground where a person may pay to establish a memorial of cremated or reduced remains; or

  (e) A cenotaph, the primary purpose of which is to provide an area where a person may pay to establish a memorial to honor a person whose remains may be interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered. See Oregon Statutes 692.010

• City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Final disposition: means the burial, interment, cremation, dissolution, reduction or other disposition of human remains authorized by the board by rule. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
• Holding room: means a room that is located in a licensed facility for the care, storage or holding of dead human bodies prior to effecting disposition. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
• hydrolysis: means the technical process for reducing human remains by placing the remains in a dissolution chamber that uses heat, pressure, water and base chemical agents, in a licensed hydrolysis facility, to reduce human remains to bone fragments and essential elements. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
• Immediate disposition company: means any business licensed under this chapter, other than a licensed funeral establishment, where a licensed funeral service practitioner operates the business of immediate final disposition and where business records are kept. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
• Natural organic reduction: means the contained, accelerated conversion of human remains to soil. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
• Operating cemetery: means a cemetery that:

  (a) Performs interments;

  (b) Has fiduciary responsibility for endowment care, general care or special care funds; or

  (c) Has outstanding preneed service contracts for unperformed services. See Oregon Statutes 692.010

• Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Reduced remains: means the remains of a human body after completion of reduction. See Oregon Statutes 692.010
• Reduction: means alkaline hydrolysis, natural organic reduction and any other method of final disposition of human remains authorized by the board. See Oregon Statutes 692.010