Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Virginia · 32.1 · §§ 32.1-289 to 32.1-297.2 · 41 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 4 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 73 Md. App. 1 - Roberts v. SUBURBAN HOSPITAL ASS'N, INC.
Sections covered
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-289Repealed
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-289.1Repealed
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-289.2Repealed
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-290Repealed
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-290.1Repealed
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291Repealed
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.1Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; short title
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.10Manner of making, amending, or revoking anatomical gift of decedent's body or part
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.11Persons that may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.12Search and notification
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.13Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.14Rights and duties of procurement organization and others
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.15Coordination of procurement and use
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.16Sale or purchase of parts prohibited; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.17Falsification, etc., of document of gift; penalty
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.18Immunity
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.19Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.2Definitions
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.20Donor registry
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.21Effect of anatomical gift on advance health-care directive
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.22Cooperation between Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and procurement organization
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.23Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.24Uniformity of application and construction
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.25Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.3Applicability of Act
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.4Who may make anatomical gift before donor's death
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.5Manner of making anatomical gift before donor's death
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.6Amending or revoking anatomical gift before donor's death
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.7Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.8Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-291.9Who may make anatomical gift of decedent's body or part
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-292Repealed
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-292.1Repealed
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-292.2The Virginia Donor Registry
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-293Repealed
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-294Repealed
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-295Repealed
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-296Determination of death
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-297Action for implied warranty in connection with transfer of blood or human tissue3 cites
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-297.1The Virginia Transplant Council1 cite
- Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-297.2Discrimination prohibited
Enacted in other states
Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Wyoming
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