TITLE 23

Health and Safety

CHAPTER 23-18.6.1

Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

SECTION 23-18.6.1-10



   § 23-18.6.1-10  Manner of making, amending

or revoking anatomical gift of decedent's body or part. –

(a) A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under § 23-18.6.1-9

may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by the person making

the gift or by that person's oral communication that is electronically recorded

or is contemporaneously reduced to a record and signed by the individual

receiving the oral communication.



   (b) Subject to subsection (c), an anatomical gift by a person

authorized under § 23-18.6.1-9 may be amended or revoked orally or in a

record by any member of a prior class who is reasonably available. If more than

one member of the prior class is reasonably available, the gift made by a

person authorized under § 23-18.6.1-9 may be:



   (1) Amended only if a majority of the reasonably available

members agree to the amending of the gift; or



   (2) Revoked only if a majority of the reasonably available

members agree to the revoking of the gift or if they are equally divided as to

whether to revoke the gift.



   (c) A revocation under subsection (b) is effective only if,

before an incision has been made to remove a part from the donor's body or

before invasive procedures have begun to prepare the recipient, the procurement

organization, transplant hospital, or physician or technician knows of the

revocation.



History of Section.

(P.L. 2007, ch. 476, § 2.)