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Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

Texas · HS · §§ 692A.001 to 692A.023 · 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.

In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 6 court decisions.

Most-cited authority: 370 S.W.3d 377 - Evanston Insurance Co. v. Legacy of Life, Inc.

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Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont, Wyoming

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