California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 3.5 - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

• Section 7150.
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.(Repealed and added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 629, Sec. 2. Effective...
• Section 7150.10.
  (a) As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Adult” means an individual who is at least 18 years of age.(2) “Agent” means an...
• Section 7150.15.
  Subject to Section 7150.35, an anatomical gift of a donor’s body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the purpose...
• Section 7150.20.
  (a) A donor may make an anatomical gift through any of the following:(1) By authorizing a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical...
• Section 7150.25.
  (a) Subject to Section 7150.35, a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 7150.15 may amend or revoke an anatomical gift...
• Section 7150.30.
  (a) An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift of the individual’s body or part by any of the following:(1) A record signed by either of...
• Section 7150.35.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (g) and subject to subdivision (f), in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor, a person...
• Section 7150.40.
  (a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), and unless barred by Section 7150.30 or 7150.35, an anatomical gift of a decedent’s body or part for the...
• Section 7150.45.
  (a) A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 7150.40 may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by the person...
• Section 7150.50.
  (a) An anatomical gift may be made to any of the following persons named in the document of gift:(1) A hospital, accredited medical school, dental school, college,...
• Section 7150.55.
  (a) All of the following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the person reasonably believes is dead or near death for a...
• Section 7150.60.
  (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 in possession of...
• Section 7150.65.
  (a) When a hospital refers an individual at or near death to a procurement organization, the organization shall make a reasonable search of the records of...
• Section 7150.70.
  Each hospital in this state shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts.(Added by Stats....
• Section 7150.75.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), a person that, for valuable consideration, knowingly purchases or sells a part for transplantation or therapy, if removal...
• Section 7150.80.
  (a) A person that acts in accordance with this chapter or with the applicable anatomical gift law of another state, or attempts in good faith to...
• Section 7150.85.
  (a) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with any of the following:(1) This chapter.(2) The laws of the state or country where it was...
• Section 7150.90.
  (a) The California organ procurement organizations designated pursuant to Section 273 and following of Title 42 of the United States Code, are hereby authorized to establish...
• Section 7151.10.
  (a) As used in this section the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Advance health care directive” means a power of attorney for health care or a...
• Section 7151.15.
  (a) A county coroner shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education.(b) If...
• Section 7151.20.
  (a) On request from a qualified procurement organization, the county coroner may permit the removal of organs that constitute an anatomical gift from a decedent who...
• Section 7151.25.
  In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject...
• Section 7151.30.
  This act modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 7001 et seq.), but does not modify,...
• Section 7151.35.
  (a) No hospital, physician and surgeon, procurement organization, or other person shall determine the ultimate recipient of an anatomical gift based upon a potential recipient’s physical...
• Section 7151.36.
  (a) A hospital, physician and surgeon, procurement organization, or other person shall not determine the ultimate recipient of an anatomical gift based solely upon a potential...
• Section 7151.40.
  (a) If there has been an anatomical gift, a technician may remove any donated parts and an enucleator may remove any donated eyes or parts of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018