20 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 86 - Anatomical Gifts
Subchapter A. General Provisions
- Section 8601 - Definitions
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly...
Subchapter B. Express Anatomical Gifts
- Section 8611 - Persons Who May Execute Anatomical Gift
(a) General rule.--Any individual of sound mind and 18 years of age or more may give all or any part of his body for...
- Section 8612 - Persons Who May Become Donees; Purposes For Which Anatomical Gifts May Be Made
The following persons may become donees of gifts of bodies or parts thereof for any of the purposes stated: (1) Any hospital, surgeon or...
- Section 8613 - Manner Of Executing Anatomical Gifts
(a) Gifts by will.--A gift of all or part of the body under section 8611(a) (relating to persons who may execute anatomical gift) may...
- Section 8614 - 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...
- Section 8615 - Amendment Or Revocation Of Gift
(a) Document delivered to donee.--If the will, card or other document or executed copy thereof has been delivered to a specified donee, the donor...
- Section 8616 - Rights And Duties At Death
(a) Donees and relatives.--The donee may accept or reject the gift. If the donee accepts a gift of the entire body, he shall, subject...
- Section 8617 - Requests For Anatomical Gifts
(a) Procedure.--On or before the occurrence of each death in an acute care general hospital, the hospital shall make contact with the regional organ...
- Section 8618 - Voluntary Contribution System (Repealed)
§ 8618. Voluntary contribution system (Repealed). 1997 Repeal. Section 8618 was repealed May 7, 1997, P.L.85, No.7, effective immediately.
- Section 8619 - Use Of Driver's License Or Identification Card To Indicate Organ Or Tissue Donation
(a) General rule.--The Department of Transportation shall redesign the driver's license and identification card application system to process requests for information regarding consent of...
- Section 8620 - Police And Emergency Personnel Responsibilities
Police and emergency personnel responding to the scene of an accident or trauma shall take reasonable steps to insure that the driver's license or...
- Section 8621 - The Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ And Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund Contributions
(a) Driver's license.--Beginning as soon as practicable, but no later than January 1, 1995, the Department of Transportation shall provide an applicant for an...
- Section 8622 - The Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ And Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund
(a) Establishment.--All contributions received by the Department of Transportation under section 8621 (relating to The Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue Donation...
- Section 8623 - Confidentiality Requirement
The identity of the donor and of the recipient may not be communicated unless expressly authorized by the recipient and next of kin of...
- Section 8624 - Prohibited Activities
(a) Affiliates.--No organ procurement organization selected by the Department of Health under section 8617(g) (relating to requests for anatomical gifts) to conduct annual death...
Subchapter C. Corneal Transplants
Last modified: October 8, 2016