New York Public Health Law Article 43 - ANATOMICAL GIFTS

• 4300 - Definitions.
  As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Bank or storage facility" means a hospital, laboratory or other facility...
• 4301 - Persons Who May Execute an Anatomical Gift.
  1. (a) Any individual of sound mind and eighteen years of age or more may give all or any part of his or her body...
• 4302 - Persons Who May Become Donees and Purposes for Which Anatomical Gifts May Be Made.
  The following persons may become donees of gifts or bodies or parts thereof for the purposes stated: 1. any hospital, surgeon, or physician, for medical...
• 4303 - Manner of Executing Anatomical Gifts.
  1. A gift of all or part of the body under this article may be made by will. The gift becomes effective upon the death...
• 4304 - Delivery of Document of Gift.
  If the gift is made by the donor to a specified donee, the will, card or other document or an executed copy thereof, may be...
• 4305 - Revocation of the Gift.
  1. If the will, card, or other document or executed copy thereof has been delivered to a specified donee, the donor may amend or revoke...
• 4306 - Rights and Duties At Death.
  1. The donee may accept or reject the gift. If the donee accepts a gift of the entire body, he may, subject to the terms...
• 4307 - Prohibition of Sales and Purchases of Human Organs.
  1. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer for valuable consideration any human organ for use in human...
• 4308 - Prohibition on Charging a Fee to a Donor's Estate.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no physician, hospital or other health care provider may charge the donor's estate, family or insurer for any cost...
• 4309 - Application.
  The provisions of this article shall not be deemed to supersede or affect the provisions of the public health law relating to the functions, powers...
• 4310 - New York State Donate Life Registry for Organ, Eye and Tissue Donations.
  1. The department shall establish an organ, eye, and tissue donor registry, which shall be called and be referred to as the "donate life registry",...

Last modified: February 3, 2019