Arkansas Code Title 20, Subtitle 2, Chapter 17, Subchapter 12 - Revised Arkansas Anatomical Gift Act

• § 20-17-1201 - Short Title.
  This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Revised Arkansas Anatomical Gift Act".
• § 20-17-1202 - Definitions.
  In this subchapter: (1) "Adult" means an individual who is at least eighteen (18) years of age. (2) "Agent" means an individual: (A) authorized...
• § 20-17-1203 - Applicability.
  This subchapter applies to an anatomical gift or amendment to, revocation of, or refusal to make an anatomical gift, whenever made.
• § 20-17-1204 - Who May Make Anatomical Gift Before Donor's Death.
  Subject to § 20-17-1208, an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the...
• § 20-17-1205 - Manner of Making Anatomical Gift Before Donor's Death.
  (a) A donor may make an anatomical gift: (1) by authorizing a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift...
• § 20-17-1206 - Amending or Revoking Anatomical Gift Before Donor's Death.
  (a) Subject to § 20-17-1208, a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under § 20-17-1204 may amend or revoke an...
• § 20-17-1207 - Refusal to Make Anatomical Gift -- Effect of Refusal.
  (a) An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part by: (1) a record signed by: (A) the...
• § 20-17-1208 - Preclusive Effect of Anatomical Gift, Amendment, or Revocation.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) and subject to subsection (f), in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor,...
• § 20-17-1209 - Who May Make Anatomical Gift of Decedent's Body or Part.
  (a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c) and unless barred by § 20-17-1207 or § 20-17-1208, an anatomical gift of a decedent's body or...
• § 20-17-1210 - Manner of Making, Amending, or Revoking Anatomical Gift of Decedent's Body or Part.
  (a) A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under § 20-17-1209 may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by...
• § 20-17-1211 - Persons that May Receive Anatomical Gift -- Purpose of Anatomical Gift.
  (a) An anatomical gift may be made to the following persons named in the document of gift: (1) a hospital; accredited medical school, dental...
• § 20-17-1212 - Search and Notification.
  (a) The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the person reasonably believes is dead or near death for a...
• § 20-17-1213 - Delivery of Document of Gift Not Required -- Right to Examine.
  (a) A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor's lifetime to be effective.(b) Upon or after an individual's death, a person...
• § 20-17-1214 - Rights and Duties of Procurement Organization and Others.
  (a) When a hospital refers an individual at or near death to a procurement organization, the organization shall make a reasonable search of the...
• § 20-17-1215 - Coordination of Procurement and Use.
  Each hospital in this state shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts.
• § 20-17-1216 - Sale or Purchase of Parts Prohibited.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a person that for valuable consideration, knowingly purchases or sells a part for transplantation or therapy...
• § 20-17-1217 - Other Prohibited Acts.
  A person that, in order to obtain a financial gain, intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces, or obliterates a document of gift, an amendment or...
• § 20-17-1218 - Immunity.
  (a) A person that acts in accordance with this subchapter or with the applicable anatomical gift law of another state, or attempts in good...
• § 20-17-1219 - Law Governing Validity -- Choice of Law As to Execution of Document of Gift -- Presumption of Validity.
  (a) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with: (1) this subchapter; (2) the laws of the state or country where...
• § 20-17-1220 - [Reserved.]
• § 20-17-1221 - Effect of Anatomical Gift on Advance Health-Care Directive.
  (a) In this section: (1) "Advance health-care directive" means a power of attorney for health care or a record signed by a prospective donor...
• § 20-17-1222 - Cooperation Between a Coroner or the State Medical Examiner and a Procurement Organization.
  (a) A coroner and the state medical examiner shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose...
• § 20-17-1223 - Facilitation of Anatomical Gift From Decedent Whose Body is Under Jurisdiction of Coroner or the State Medical Examiner.
  (a) Upon request of a procurement organization, a coroner or the state medical examiner shall release to the procurement organization the name, contact information,...
• § 20-17-1224 - [Reserved.]
• § 20-17-1225 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
  This act modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq., but does not...
• § 20-17-1226 - [Reserved.]
• § 20-17-1227 - [Reserved.]

Last modified: November 15, 2016