Duty to identify donor
Sec. 14. (a) The following persons shall make a reasonable search
for information identifying the bearer as an organ or a tissue donor
or as an individual who has refused to make a gift under this chapter:
(1) A law enforcement officer, paramedic, or other emergency
rescuer finding an individual who the searcher believes is dead
or near death.
(2) A hospital, upon the admission of an individual at or near
the time of death, if there is not immediately available any other
source of information regarding a gift or refusal to make a gift
under this chapter.
(b) If a document of gift or evidence of refusal to make an
anatomical gift is located by the search required by subsection (a),
and the individual or body to whom it relates is taken to a hospital,
the hospital must be notified of the contents of the document or
refusal and the document or other evidence must be sent to the
hospital.
As added by P.L.126-1995, SEC.9 and P.L.135-1995, SEC.7.
Last modified: May 27, 2006