Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Alabama · Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control · §§ 22-19-160 to 22-19-184 · 25 sections
Overview
The act governs the medicolegal investigation of deaths and the donation of bodies and body parts for transplantation, research, and education. It establishes a state medical examiner system — a chief medical examiner with defined qualifications, staff, offices, and county-level appointees — and sets out that system's jurisdiction over deaths, its authority to subpoena, order autopsies and exhumations, control embalming, burial, and cremation, and the evidentiary status of its reports and records. It also fixes who may make, amend, or revoke an anatomical gift of a decedent's body or parts, who may receive one and for what purposes, the duties of procurement organizations and their coordination with medical examiners, a donor registry, immunity for good-faith compliance, and a prohibition on buying or selling body parts.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
Sections covered
- Ala. Code § 22-19-160Short Title.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-161Definitions.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-162Applicability.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-163Who May Make Anatomical Gift Before Donor’s Death.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-164Manner of Making Anatomical Gift Before Donor’s Death.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-165Amending or Revoking Anatomical Gift Before Donor’s Death.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-166Refusal to Make Anatomical Gift; Effect of Refusal.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-167Preclusive Effect of Anatomical Gift, Amendment, or Revocation.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-168Who May Make Anatomical Gift of Decedent’s Body or Part.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-169Manner of Making, Amending, or Revoking Anatomical Gift of Decedent’s Body or Part.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-170Persons That May Receive Anatomical Gift; Purpose of Anatomical Gift.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-171Search and Notification.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-172Delivery of Document of Gift Not Required; Right to Examine.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-173Rights and Duties of Procurement Organization and Others.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-174Coordination of Procurement and Use.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-175Sale or Purchase of Parts Prohibited.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-176Other Prohibited Acts.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-177Immunity.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-178Law Governing Validity; Choice of Law as to Execution of Document of Gift; Presumption of Validity.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-179Donor Registry.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-180Effect of Anatomical Gift on Advance Health Care Directive.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-181Cooperation Between Coroner, Medical Examiner, and Procurement Organization.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-182Facilitation of Anatomical Gift from Decedent Whose Body Is Under Jurisdiction of Coroner or Medical Examiner.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-183Uniformity of Application and Construction.
- Ala. Code § 22-19-184Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
Enacted in other states
Connecticut, Iowa, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Vermont, Wyoming
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