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Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-3-501

Uniform Determination of Death Act

Known as the Uniform Determination of Death Act

Acts 1976, ch. 780, § 1; 1982, ch. 763, §§ 1-4; T.C.A., § 53-459.

(1) This section may be cited as the “Uniform Determination of Death Act.”

(2) An individual who has sustained either: Irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions; or

(3) Irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem; is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.

(4) This section shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this section among states enacting it.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.