Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Vermont · Health · §§ 18-5250a to 18-5250z · 26 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
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250aShort title
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250bDefinitions
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250cApplicability
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250dWho may make anatomical gift before donor’s death
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250eManner of making anatomical gift before donor’s death
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250fAmending or revoking anatomical gift before donor’s death
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250gRefusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250hPreclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250iWho may make anatomical gift of decedent’s body or part
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250jManner of making, amending, or revoking anatomical gift of decedent’s body or part
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250kPersons that may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250lSearch and notification
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250mDelivery of document of gift not required; right to examine
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250nRights and duties of procurement organization and others
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250oCoordination of procurement and use
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250pSale or purchase of parts prohibited
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250qOther prohibited acts
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250rImmunity
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250sLaw governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250tDonor registry
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250u[Reserved.]
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250vCooperation between Medical Examiner and procurement organization
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250w[Reserved.]
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250xHonoring donor intent
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250yUniformity of application and construction
- Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 18, § 5250zRelation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
Enacted in other states
Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming
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