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2025 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment
Chapter 459 - Solid Waste Management
Section 459.400 - Exceptions.

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OR Rev Stat § 459.400 (2025)
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The requirements of ORS 459.386 to 459.405 do not apply to:

(1) Waste, other than sharps, that is:

(a) Generated in the practice of veterinary medicine; and

(b) Not capable of being communicated by invasion and multiplication in body tissues and capable of causing disease or adverse health impacts in humans.

(2) The following, released by a health care facility as defined in ORS 442.015 in accordance with rules adopted by the Oregon Health Authority:

(a) A placenta received by a postpartum mother; or

(b) Human pathological waste:

(A) Received by the donor of the pathological waste or an authorized representative of the donor; and

(B) That is intended by the recipient for cremation, interment or other final disposition in accordance with ORS chapter 97. [1989 c.763 §8; 1993 c.560 §47; 2013 c.109 §1; 2023 c.269 §1]

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