Georgia Code, Title 44, Chapter 5, Article 6 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gifts

• § 44-5-140 - Short Title
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act."
• § 44-5-141 - Definitions
  As used in this article, the term: (1) "Adult" means an individual who is at least 18 years of age. (2) "Agent" means an...
• § 44-5-142 - Anatomical Gifts During Life of Donor
  Subject to Code Section 44-5-146, an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part may be made during the life of the donor for...
• § 44-5-143 - Method to Make an Anatomical Gift
  (a) A donor may make an anatomical gift: (1) By authorizing a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift...
• § 44-5-144 - Amending, or Revoking an Anatomical Gift
  (a) Subject to Code Section 44-5-146, a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Code Section 44-5-142 may amend or...
• § 44-5-145 - Refusal to Make an Anatomical Gift
  (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...
• § 44-5-146 - Role and Authority of People Other Than Donor
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) of this Code section and subject to subsection (f) of this Code section, in the absence...
• § 44-5-147 - Classes of Persons Available to Make Donations; Priority
  (a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this Code section and unless barred by Code Section 44-5-145 or 44-5-146, an anatomical gift of...
• § 44-5-148 - Signed Writing or Oral Communication Required for Gift of Document
  (a) A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Code Section 44-5-147 may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed...
• § 44-5-149 - Recipients of Anatomical Gifts of Procurement Organizations
  (a) An anatomical gift may be made to the following persons named in the document of gift: (1) A hospital; accredited medical school, dental...
• § 44-5-150 - Search and Notification for Information Identifying Donor Status
  (a) The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the person reasonably believes is dead or near death for a...
• § 44-5-151 - Delivery of Document
  (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...
• § 44-5-152 - Rights and Duties of Procurement Organizations
  (a) When a hospital refers an individual at or near death to a procurement organization, the organization shall make a reasonable search of the...
• § 44-5-153 - 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.
• § 44-5-154 - Limited Prohibition on Sale or Purchase of Body Parts
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, a person that for valuable consideration knowingly purchases or sells a part...
• § 44-5-155 - Penalties
  A person that, in order to obtain a financial gain, intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces, or obliterates a document of gift, an amendment or...
• § 44-5-156 - Immunity
  (a) A person that acts in accordance with this article or with the applicable anatomical gift law of another state, or attempts in good...
• § 44-5-157 - Requirements for Validity of Document of Gift; Governing Law
  (a) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with: (1) This article; (2) The laws of the state or country where...
• § 44-5-158 - Donor Registry
  (a) The Department of Driver Services shall make available to procurement organizations or secure data centers maintained and managed at the direction of a...
• § 44-5-159 - Impact of Anatomical Gift on an Advance Directive for Health Care
  If a prospective donor has an advance directive for health care in accordance with Chapter 32 of Title 31 or a declaration signed by...
• § 44-5-159.1 - Cooperation Between Medical Examiners and Procurement Organizations
  (a) A medical examiner and procurement organizations shall cooperate with each other to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of...
• § 44-5-159.2 - Role of Medical Examiner
  (a) Upon specific request of a procurement organization, and in accordance with the procedures set forth under the agreement established pursuant to subsection (e)...
• § 44-5-159.3 - Application
  This article applies to an anatomical gift or amendment to, revocation of, or refusal to make an anatomical gift, whenever made.
• § 44-5-159.4 - Construction With Federal Law
  This article modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq., but does not...

Last modified: October 14, 2016