Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Iowa · Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act · §§ 142C.1 to 142C.9 · 23 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
- Iowa Code § 142C.1Short title
- Iowa Code § 142C.10Sale or purchase of parts prohibited — penalty
- Iowa Code § 142C.10AOther prohibited acts — penalty
- Iowa Code § 142C.11Immunity
- Iowa Code § 142C.12Service but not a sale
- Iowa Code § 142C.12ALaw governing validity, choice of law, presumption of validity
- Iowa Code § 142C.12BEffect of anatomical gift on advance health care directive
- Iowa Code § 142C.13Transitional provisions
- Iowa Code § 142C.14Uniformity of application and construction
- Iowa Code § 142C.14AElectronic signatures
- Iowa Code § 142C.15Anatomical gift public awareness and transplantation fund — established — uses of fund
- Iowa Code § 142C.17Annual donation and compliance report. Repealed by 2024 Acts, ch 1018, §12 – 14
- Iowa Code § 142C.18Iowa donor registry
- Iowa Code § 142C.2Definitions
- Iowa Code § 142C.3Persons who may make — manner of making — amending or revoking — refusal to make anatomical gift before donor’s death — preclusive effect
- Iowa Code § 142C.4Who may make anatomical gift of decedent’s body or part — amending or revoking gift
- Iowa Code § 142C.4ACooperation between medical examiner and organ procurement organization — facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction of medical examiner
- Iowa Code § 142C.5Persons who may receive anatomical gifts and purposes for which anatomical gifts may be made
- Iowa Code § 142C.5ASearch and notification
- Iowa Code § 142C.6Delivery of document of gift not required — right to examine
- Iowa Code § 142C.7Confidential information
- Iowa Code § 142C.8Rights and duties of procurement organizations and donors
- Iowa Code § 142C.9Coordination of procurement and use
Enacted in other states
Alabama, Connecticut, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Vermont, Wyoming
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