Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Connecticut · 19A · §§ 19a-270 to 19a-291 · 37 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
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-270(Formerly Sec. 19-139). Bodies for anatomical purposes
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-270a(Formerly Sec. 19a-283). Disposition of remains of bodies
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-270b(Formerly Sec. 19a-284). Bodies to be used for medical study
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-271Donation of bodies for anatomical purposes: Generally
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-279aAnatomical gifts: Definitions. Making, amending, revoking and refusing to make an anatomical gift by an individual. Classes of persons who may make an anatomical gift of all or a part of decedent's body. Role of Chief Medical Examiner. Discussion and request re anatomical gift, search and notification re document of gift or evidence of refusal. Persons who may become donees, purposes for which anatomical gifts may be made. Delivery of document of gift. Rights and duties at death. Coordination of procurement and use. Examination, autopsy, liability. Transitional provision. Regulations. Sale of blood, tissue and organs. Prohibition against transfer for valuable consideration of any human organ for use in human transplantation; penalty. Removal of corneal or pituitary tissue during autopsy; authorization
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-282(Formerly Sec. 19-140). When the delivery of bodies is prohibited
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-283Public Health and Well-Being › Anatomical Donations
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-285(Formerly Sec. 19-142a). Consent by minor to medical, dental, health or hospital services for child
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-285aDonation of blood by minors
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-286(Formerly Sec. 19-143). Autopsy consent. Autopsy arrangements, rights and responsibilities. Informed autopsy consent form
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-287(Formerly Sec. 19-144). Penalty
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-288(Formerly Sec. 19-145). Delivering or receiving corpse for speculation; penalty
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289Short title: Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289aDefinitions
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289bScope
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289cPersons who may make an anatomical gift during the life of the donor
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289dMethods of making anatomical gifts
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289eMethods of amending or revoking an anatomical gift
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289fMethods of refusing to make an anatomical gift
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289gEffect of anatomical gift, amendment, revocation or refusal
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289hPriority of persons who may make an anatomical gift of a decedent's body or part
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289iMethods of making or revoking an anatomical gift of a decedent
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289jPersons who may receive an anatomical gift. Purpose of anatomical gift
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289kPersons responsible for making a reasonable search of donor intent to make an anatomical gift
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289ll . Delivery of document of gift
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289mRights and responsibilities of a procurement organization. Donee's rights. Procedures for removing or transplanting donated body parts
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289nAgreements between hospitals and procurement organizations
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289oProhibition against transfer for valuable consideration of any part. Permissible charges
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289pProhibited acts re document of gift
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289qImmunity. Implied warranties not applicable. Determining whether an anatomical gift has been made
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289rChoice of law
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289sRequirements re donor registry
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289tOffice of the Chief Medical Examiner to cooperate with procurement organizations
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289uUniformity of application and construction of act
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-289vRelation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-290Eligibility of persons with physical, mental or intellectual disabilities to receive anatomical gifts or organs
- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-291Public Health and Well-Being › Anatomical Donations
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