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CT Gen Stat § 19a-289h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289h - Priority of persons who may make an anatomical gift of a decedent's body or part.

 (a) Subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section and unless precluded by section 19a-289f or 19a-289g, an anatomical gift of a decedent's body or part for purpose of transplantation, therapy, research or education may be made by any member of the following classes of persons who is reasonably available, in the order of priority listed:(1) An agent of the decedent who could have made an anatomical gift under subdivision (2) of section 19a-289c immediately before the decedent's death;(2) The spouse of the decedent;(3) A person designated by the decedent pursuant to section 1-56r;(4) Adult children of the decedent;(5) Parents of the decedent;(6) Adult siblings of the decedent;(7) Adult grandchildren of the decedent;(8) Grandparents of the decedent;(9) An adult who exhibited special care and concern for the decedent;(10) The persons who were acting as the guardians or conservator of the person of the decedent at the time of death; and(11) Any other person having the authority to dispose of the decedent's body.(b) If there is more than one member of a class listed in subdivision (1), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8) or (10) of subsection (a) of this section entitled to make an anatomical gift, an anatomical gift may be made by any member of the class unless that member or a person to which the gift may pass under section 19a-289j knows of an objection by any other member of the class. If an objection is known, the gift may be made only by a majority of the members of the class who are reasonably available.(c) A person may not make an anatomical gift if, at the time of the decedent's death, a person in a higher priority class under subsection (a) of this section is reasonably available to make or to object to the making of an anatomical gift.(P.A. 10-123, S. 9.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-289i (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289i - Methods of making or revoking an anatomical gift of a decedent.

 (a) A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under section 19a-289h 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 the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, an anatomical gift by a person authorized under section 19a-289h may be amended or revoked orally or in a record by any member of a higher priority class under subsection (a) of section 19a-289h, who is reasonably available. If more than one member of such higher priority class is reasonably available, the gift made by a person authorized under section 19a-289h may be: (1) Amended, only if a majority of the reasonably available higher priority class members agree to the amending of the gift; or (2) revoked, only if a majority of the reasonably available higher priority class members agree to the revoking of the gift or they are equally divided as to whether to revoke the gift.(c) A revocation under subsection (b) of this section is effective only if the procurement organization, transplant hospital or physician or technician knows of the revocation 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.(P.A. 10-123, S. 10.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-289k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289k - Persons responsible for making a reasonable search of donor intent to make an anatomical gift.

 (a) The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the person reasonably believes is dead or near death for a document of gift or other information identifying the individual as a donor or as an individual who made a refusal: (1) A law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic or other emergency rescuer finding the individual; and (2) if no other source of the information is immediately available, a hospital, as soon as practical after the individual's arrival at the hospital.(b) If a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift is located as a result of the search required pursuant to subsection (a) of this section and the individual or deceased individual to whom such search relates is taken to a hospital, the person responsible for conducting such search shall send the document of gift or refusal to the hospital.(c) A person shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability for failing to discharge the duties imposed by this section, but may be subject to administrative sanctions.(P.A. 10-123, S. 12.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-289l (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289l - Delivery of document of gift.

 (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 a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift with respect to the individual shall allow examination and copying of the document of gift or refusal by a person authorized to make or object to the making of an anatomical gift with respect to the individual or by a person to which the gift could pass under section 19a-289j.(P.A. 10-123, S. 13.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-289n (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289n - Agreements between hospitals and procurement organizations.

 Each hospital in this state shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts.(P.A. 10-123, S. 15.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-289o (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289o - Prohibition against transfer for valuable consideration of any part. Permissible charges.

 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a person that for valuable consideration, knowingly purchases or sells a part for transplantation or therapy if removal of a part from an individual is intended to occur after the individual's death shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.(b) A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation or disposal of a part.(P.A. 10-123, S. 16.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-289p (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289p - Prohibited acts re document of gift.

 A person that, in order to obtain a financial gain, intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces or obliterates a document of gift, an amendment or revocation of a document of gift, or a refusal shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.(P.A. 10-123, S. 17.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-289q (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289q - Immunity. Implied warranties not applicable. Determining whether an anatomical gift has been made.

 (a) A person that acts in accordance with sections 14-42 and 19a-289 to 19a-289v, inclusive, or with the applicable anatomical gift law of another state, or attempts in good faith to do so, shall not be liable for the act in a civil action, criminal prosecution or administrative proceeding. Following a donor's designation in a donor registry, signed statement by a donor or a donor card shall be prima facie evidence of good faith attempt by a person to conform to the donor's intent.(b) Neither the person making an anatomical gift nor the donor's estate is liable for any injury or damage that results from the making or use of the gift.(c) Implied warranties of merchantability and fitness shall not be applicable to human organs, tissues, eyes or human blood or blood plasma. Provision of such organs, tissues, eyes, blood, blood plasma and components, derivative or fractions thereof, shall not be considered commodities subject to sale or barter, but shall be considered as medical services.(d) In determining whether an anatomical gift has been made, amended or revoked under the provisions of sections 14-42 and 19a-289 to 19a-289v, inclusive, a person may rely upon representations of an individual listed in subdivisions (2) to (8), inclusive, of subsection (a) of section 19a-289h, relating to such individual's relationship to the donor or prospective donor unless the person knows that the individual's representation is untrue.(P.A. 10-123, S. 18.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-289r (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289r - Choice of law.

 (a) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with: (1) The provisions of sections 14-42 and 19a-289 to 19a-289v, inclusive; (2) the laws of the state or country where such document was executed; or (3) the laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed.(b) If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift.(c) A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.(P.A. 10-123, S. 19.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-289s (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289s - Requirements re donor registry.

 (a) A donor registry shall be: (1) A database that includes individuals who have made an anatomical gift; (2) accessible to a procurement organization in order to allow such procurement organization the ability to obtain relevant information on the donor registry to determine, at or near death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made an anatomical gift; and (3) accessible for the purposes of this subsection seven days a week, twenty-four hours per day. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to require the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide access to data maintained by the department under section 14-42a in any manner that is inconsistent with said section 14-42a.(b) Personally identifiable information on a donor registry concerning a donor or prospective donor may not be used or disclosed without the express consent of the donor, prospective donor or person that made the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine whether the donor or prospective donor has made an anatomical gift.(c) Nothing in this section shall prohibit any person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the state. Any such established registry shall comply with the requirements of subsections (a) and (b) of this section.(P.A. 10-123, S. 20.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-289t (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289t - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to cooperate with procurement organizations.

 Subject to the provisions of chapter 368q, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research or education.(P.A. 10-123, S. 21.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-289u (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289u - Uniformity of application and construction of act.

 In applying and construing the provisions of the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to the subject matter among states that enact said uniform act.(P.A. 10-123, S. 22.)
CT Gen Stat § 19a-289v (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368i - Anatomical Donations|Section 19a-289v - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

 Sections 19a-289 to 19a-289v, inclusive, modify, limit and supersede the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 USC Section 7001 et seq., but do not modify, limit or supersede Section 101(c) of that act, 15 USC Section 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of said act, 15 USC Section 7003(b).(P.A. 10-123, S. 23; P.A. 15-14, S. 20.)History: P.A. 15-14 made a technical change.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-295. (Formerly Sec. 19-146) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368j - Cemeteries|Section 19a-295. (Formerly Sec. 19-146) - Ownership and management of burial grounds. Town appropriations.

 Towns and ecclesiastical societies may procure and hold lands for burial grounds and provide a hearse and pall for the burial of the dead. Cemeteries may be acquired, owned and managed and controlled by such towns and ecclesiastical societies, and by cemetery associations heretofore incorporated or incorporated as provided in section 19a-296, and by no other persons, firms or corporations. Any town may appropriate annually such sum as may be necessary to maintain and properly care for public cemeteries and public burying grounds owned or controlled by such town, and any town may appropriate annually such sums as may be necessary to aid in the maintenance and care of public cemeteries and public burying grounds owned or controlled by ecclesiastical societies or cemetery associations.(1949 Rev., S. 4703; 1953, S. 2358d.)History: Sec. 19-146 transferred to Sec. 19a-295 in 1983.See Sec. 19a-91 re transportation of bodies.See Sec. 25-41 prohibiting location of cemetery within one-half mile of reservoir.Annotations to former section 19-146:Section authorizes ancient practice. 77 C. 84.Cited. 29 CS 292.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-296. (Formerly Sec. 19-147) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368j - Cemeteries|Section 19a-296. (Formerly Sec. 19-147) - Cemetery associations.

 (a) Cemetery associations shall be organized in accordance with the provisions of sections 33-1025 to 33-1047, inclusive, and shall not be conducted for the purposes of speculation in cemetery lots and property, or for private gain, either directly or indirectly, to any of the members of any such association; and land for the enlargement of a cemetery may be taken in accordance with the provisions of section 48-18.(b) The board of directors or board of trustees of any cemetery association shall hold an annual meeting of the association. At such annual meeting, the board shall accept an annual financial statement that shall contain an accounting of income and expenses of the cemetery association for the preceding fiscal year and an accounting of assets owned by the association. Such financial statement shall be included in the minutes of the annual meeting at which such financial statement was accepted. The board shall retain the minutes of such annual meeting for a period of not less than twenty years after such meeting.(c) No officer, director or trustee of a cemetery association may serve as an officer, director or trustee of any company that manages or operates any aspect of the cemetery.(d) Any interested party may petition the probate court for the district within which the cemetery owned or controlled by a cemetery association is located to require disclosure of the minutes of an annual meeting of the cemetery association including any financial statement required to be included in such minutes. The court may, after hearing, with notice to all interested parties, grant the petition and require disclosure of such minutes for such periods of time as it determines are reasonable and necessary on finding that: (1) The petitioner has an interest in the minutes sufficient to warrant disclosure, and (2) the petition is not for the purpose of harassment.(1949 Rev., S. 4704; 1959, P.A. 617, S. 109; P.A. 96-256, S. 184, 209; P.A. 05-197, S. 2.)History: 1959 act deleted reference to section 33-146, substituting sections 33-423 to 33-432; Sec. 19-147 transferred to Sec. 19a-296 in 1983; P.A. 96-256 replaced reference to Secs. 33-423 to 33-432, inclusive, with Secs. 33-1025 to Sec. 33-1047, inclusive, effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 05-197 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsecs. (b) re annual meeting and financial statement, (c) re officers, directors and trustees and (d) re petition for disclosure of minutes and financial statement.See Sec. 19a-314 re penalty for violation of this section.Annotations to former section 19-147:Special law authorizing one cemetery association to take land of another upheld. 77 C. 83. Association may still hold title to land, though all rights of burial are disposed of. 83 C. 204. Condemnation of land. 87 C. 428. Right of eminent domain is specifically given to the owner of any cemetery. 168 C. 447. Cited. 180 C. 680.Cited. 16 CS 327; 29 CS 292.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-297. (Formerly Sec. 19-148) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368j - Cemeteries|Section 19a-297. (Formerly Sec. 19-148) - Bylaws. Sexton.

 The selectmen of towns, cemetery associations or ecclesiastical societies, having the care of cemeteries, may (1) enact bylaws providing for the care and management of all burial lots, and the protection of all shrubs, trees, fences and monuments thereon, provided no such bylaws shall (A) require or result in the removal or banishing of any undamaged United States flag or armed forces service marker, including flagholders provided by veterans organizations, from any grave site, or (B) restrict the placement of United States flags on the graves of veterans from the Friday before Memorial Day in each year until the Monday after the fourth of July, and (2) appoint superintendents and sextons for such cemeteries. Such superintendents and sextons shall have the exclusive right to direct the opening of graves, and no grave shall be opened in any cemetery except with the consent of the superintendent or sexton. Any person to whom such bylaws have been made known who violates the same shall be fined not more than ten dollars. The incorporators, organizers or members of any cemetery association or, if no incorporators, organizers or members are living, the owners of burial lots therein, by a majority vote, may, at any meeting called for that purpose, amend its articles of association or its bylaws.(1949 Rev., S. 4710; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 92; 1967, P.A. 161, S. 1; P.A. 79-105; P.A. 80-483, S. 79, 186; P.A. 96-209, S. 1; P.A. 09-5, S. 1; P.A. 13-44, S. 2.)History: 1967 act added proviso re flag or service marker; P.A. 79-105 added flagholders provided by veterans organizations in proviso; P.A. 80-483 made technical grammar corrections; Sec. 19-148 transferred to Sec. 19a-297 in 1983; P.A. 96-209 added “or members” after “organizers”; P.A. 09-5 designated existing provisions re bylaws as Subdiv. (1), designated existing bylaw prohibition therein as Subpara. (A), added Subpara. (B) therein re bylaw prohibition against restriction on placement of United States flags on veterans' graves, designated existing provision re appointment of superintendents and sextons as Subdiv. (2) and made technical changes, effective May 4, 2009; P.A. 13-44 amended Subdiv. (1)(B) by changing dates for placing flags on veterans' graves from Saturday before Memorial Day to Friday before Memorial Day.See Sec. 7-66 re duties of sextons.See Sec. 7-71 re required reporting of sexton's name to town registrar.See Sec. 19a-309 re headstones at soldiers' graves.Annotations to former section 19-148:Bylaw forbidding any person to cut herbage without permission upheld; section applies to a stock corporation. 78 C. 90.Cited. 29 CS 292.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-298. (Formerly Sec. 19-149) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368j - Cemeteries|Section 19a-298. (Formerly Sec. 19-149) - Cemetery associations with capital stock organized prior to 1855.

 Cemetery associations having capital stock and organized under the general law as to incorporating burial societies prior to 1855 may, when the principal and interest of the subscriptions for capital stock have been repaid and no dividends have been paid for sixty-five years, amend the articles of association by a majority vote of the stock present and voting at a special meeting of such association called for the purpose.(1949 Rev., S. 4722.)History: Sec. 19-149 transferred to Sec. 19a-298 in 1983.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-299. (Formerly Sec. 19-150) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368j - Cemeteries|Section 19a-299. (Formerly Sec. 19-150) - Trust funds for care of cemeteries.

 Towns, ecclesiastical societies and cemetery associations may receive and hold in trust donations, the income of which is to be used wholly or in part for the care or improvement of their cemeteries and burial lots or of private lots within such cemeteries or elsewhere. All such donations shall be invested as by law required for the investment of trust funds, except when otherwise authorized by the donors. The principal of two or more such trust funds may be combined and merged in a single fund for the purpose of the investment of the same.(1949 Rev., S. 4712; 1957, P.A. 329, S. 1.)History: Sec. 19-150 transferred to Sec. 19a-299 in 1983.See Sec. 33-264g authorizing receipt of funds derived by gift or devise.Annotations to former section 19-150:Cemetery association is not a benevolent society. 73 C. 678. Ecclesiastical society can accept gift, portion of which is to be devoted to a cemetery and the balance to maintaining its church. 82 C. 188. Cited. 151 C. 527.
CT Gen Stat § 19a-300. (Formerly Sec. 19-151) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being|Chapter 368j - Cemeteries|Section 19a-300. (Formerly Sec. 19-151) - Funds for care of cemetery lots.

 Money declared by an instrument in writing to be intended for the perpetual care, maintenance, improvement or embellishment of any cemetery in this state, or of any lot or plot therein, to an amount not less than one hundred dollars, may be deposited with the State Treasurer who shall, in the name of the state, receive and receipt therefor. Each depositor shall, at the time of making such deposit, file with the State Treasurer and with the Secretary of the State a copy of such instrument. The State Treasurer shall invest the money deposited with the State Treasurer under the provisions of this section, in the name of the state, in bonds or other obligations of the state or other securities in which the State Treasurer is authorized to invest money on behalf of the state; and, on the first days of February and August annually, the State Treasurer shall pay over the accrued interest thereof to the treasurer of the town in which the cemetery is located, and the same shall be expended in the same manner as the income of funds donated to towns under the provisions of section 19a-304. At the time of paying such interest the State Treasurer shall inform the person to whom it is paid of the purpose to which it is to be applied, as stated in the copy of such instrument, and such person shall thereupon apply it to such purpose.(1949 Rev., S. 4713; 1959, P.A. 152, S. 51; P.A. 10-32, S. 73.)History: 1959 act deleted references to county and county treasurer, county government having been abolished and substituted references to state; Sec. 19-151 transferred to Sec. 19a-300 in 1983; P.A. 10-32 made technical changes, effective May 10, 2010.