Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Wyoming · Public Health and Safety · §§ 35-5-201 to 35-5-225 · 25 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
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-201Short title
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-202Definitions
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-203Applicability
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-204Who may make anatomical gift before donor's death
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-205Manner of making anatomical gift before donor's death
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-206Amending or revoking anatomical gift before donor's death
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-207Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-208Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment or revocation
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-209Who may make anatomical gift of decedent's body or part
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-210Manner of making, amending or revoking anatomical gift of decedent's body or part
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-211Persons that may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-212Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-213Rights and duties of procurement organization and others
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-214Coordination of procurement and use
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-215Sale or purchase of parts prohibited
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-216Other prohibited acts
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-217Immunity
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-218Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-219Donor registry
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-220Effect of anatomical gift on advance health care directive
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-221Cooperation between coroner and procurement organization
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-222Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction of coroner
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-223Uniformity of application and construction
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-224Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
- Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-5-225Promotion of anatomical gifts
Enacted in other states
Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Vermont
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