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AL Code § 22-19-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 5 - Taking of Blood and Urine Samples From Certain Dead Bodies.|Section 22-19-81 - Persons Who May Be Directed to Withdraw Samples.

Section 22-19-81Persons who may be directed to withdraw samples. Only a physician, registered nurse, duly licensed clinical laboratory technologist, clinical laboratory technician, mortician, licensed embalmer or licensed practicing embalmer may be directed by a coroner, deputy coroner, a law enforcement officer or the State Toxicologist or his designated or appointed assistants to withdraw blood and/or urine for the purpose or purposes cited in Section 22-19-80. (Acts 1977, No. 706, p. 1247.)
AL Code § 22-19-82 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 5 - Taking of Blood and Urine Samples From Certain Dead Bodies.|Section 22-19-82 - Exemption From Civil and Criminal Liability.

Section 22-19-82Exemption from civil and criminal liability. (a) No coroner, deputy coroner, the State Toxicologist and his designated or appointed assistants, mortician, licensed embalmer, physician, registered nurse, duly licensed clinical laboratory technologist or clinical laboratory technician or employers of the aforementioned persons shall incur any civil or criminal liability as a result of the proper withdrawal or securing or retention of a blood and/or urine specimen as provided by this article. (b) The State Toxicologist and his designated or appointed assistants shall incur no civil or criminal liability as a result of the proper analyses or studies of blood and/or urine specimens withdrawn and retained as provided in this article. (Acts 1977, No. 706, p. 1247.)
AL Code § 22-19-85 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 5A|Section 22-19-85 - Retention by Medical Examiner of Organs From a Deceased Person for Additional Testing to Determine Identification or Cause or Manner of Death; Notice.

Section 22-19-85Retention by medical examiner of organs from a deceased person for additional testing to determine identification or cause or manner of death; notice. (a) Unless directed otherwise by the Governor, the Attorney General, a district attorney, or an order of a circuit court judge, a medical examiner performing his or her duties in any county in this state as provided under existing law, including a medical examiner employed by the Department of Forensic Sciences, shall notify the next of kin, through the appropriate law enforcement agency, when retaining a deceased person's entire organ or organs for additional testing that is required to determine identification or the cause or manner of death. (b) A medical examiner performing his or her duties in any county in this state as provided under existing law, including a medical examiner employed by the Department of Forensic Sciences, is prohibited from retaining a deceased person's entire organ or organs for research or any other purpose not in conjunction with a determination of identification or cause or manner of death without notification to, and approval by, the appropriate next of kin. (Act 2021-168, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-100 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 6 - Eye Enucleation.|Section 22-19-100 - Training of Eye Bank Employees in Eye Tissue Procurement.

Section 22-19-100Training of eye bank employees in eye tissue procurement. The Alabama Eye Bank is authorized to train employees of the eye bank in principles and procedures of sterile eye tissue procurement pursuant to the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and according to the medical standards of the Eye Bank Association of America. (Acts 1980, No. 80-779, p. 1614, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-101 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 6 - Eye Enucleation.|Section 22-19-101 - Certification of Qualifications, Proficiency, Etc.

Section 22-19-101Certification of qualifications, proficiency, etc. The Medical Director and the Executive Director of the Alabama Eye Bank shall certify that no employee shall be allowed to perform eye tissue procurement unless the employee possesses the necessary educational qualifications, standards of proficiency, and fitness. (Acts 1980, No. 80-779, p. 1614, §2; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-102 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 6 - Eye Enucleation.|Section 22-19-102 - Establishment of Standards, Procedures, Etc.

Section 22-19-102Establishment of standards, procedures, etc. The Medical Director and the Executive Director of the Alabama Eye Bank are authorized to establish and promulgate the standards, measures, procedures, and recommendations necessary to assure the employee hereunder possesses the knowledge and technical skill to perform donor eye tissue procurement acceptable as good ophthalmologic procedure according to the medical standards of the Eye Bank Association of America. (Acts 1980, No. 80-779, p. 1614, §3; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-103 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 6 - Eye Enucleation.|Section 22-19-103 - Employees to Comply With Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; No Liability.

Section 22-19-103Employees to comply with Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; no liability. Any employee of the Alabama Eye Bank who is trained in donor eye tissue procurement under this article shall comply with the provisions of the Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. Such eye bank technician acting in accordance with the terms of this article shall not have any liability either civil or criminal for such eye tissue procurement. (Acts 1980, No. 80-779, p. 1614, §4; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-104 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 6 - Eye Enucleation.|Section 22-19-104 - Article Cumulative.

Section 22-19-104Article cumulative. This article does not supersede, modify, or amend prior acts, specifically Sections 34-13-150 through 34-13-152. (Acts 1980, No. 80-779, p. 1614, §5.)
AL Code § 22-19-120 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues.|Section 22-19-120 - Legislative Intent.

Section 22-19-120Legislative intent. (a) The acquisition and transportation and transplantation of donor organs, bones and tissues is becoming more common place as new scientific and technological developments find better ways to conquer the human body's rejection of such transplanted organs, bones and tissues. In its concern that donee recipients be provided the best possible quality assurance that such donated organs, bones and tissues, retrieved in Alabama are free from any contagious or communicable disease or defect, the Legislature intends to establish in this article a framework for the development of appropriate standards of care and quality assurance for the acquisition and/or transportation of organs, bones and tissues retrieved in Alabama. (b) It is also the intent of this article to recognize and utilize the quality assurance already developed in Alabama by the Department of Surgery of the School of Medicine, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center by authorizing the Chairman of the Department of Surgery to establish and promulgate the standards of proficiency and fitness and measures and procedures necessary to assure that persons involved in organ acquisition and/or transportation of organs retrieved in Alabama possess and provide the necessary knowledge and technical skills to acquire and/or transport organs, bones and tissues within acceptable levels of quality assurance. (c) It is also the intent of this article to provide sanctions against persons who fail to adhere to and follow such established policies and procedures and standards for quality assurance in the acquisition and/or transportation in Alabama of donor organs, bones, and tissues retrieved in Alabama. (Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-121 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues.|Section 22-19-121 - Definitions.

Section 22-19-121Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) CHAIRMAN. The Chairman of the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. (2) PERSON. Any person, firm, partnership, association, joint venture, or corporation, and any combination of persons herein specified, but "person" shall not include the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof, except in the case of voluntary submission to the policies and procedures and standards for quality assurance established by this article and by the "chairman". (3) QUALITY ASSURANCE. The policies and procedures and standards of quality for the acquisition and/or transportation of donated organs, bones, and tissue retrieved in Alabama. (4) ORGAN. Any human organ, human bone or human tissue, or any other part or portions of the human body, retrieved in Alabama except that the term "organ" shall not include blood, blood products, or eyes or corneas of the eye for the purposes established by this article. (5) SERVICE. Any service pertaining to the acquisition and/or transporting of organs, bones, or tissues retrieved in Alabama. (Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §2.)
AL Code § 22-19-122 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues.|Section 22-19-122 - Promulgation of Proficiency Standards and Quality Assurance Measures; Certification to Acquire and Transport Organs, etc.; Updating of Quality Assurance Standards.

Section 22-19-122Promulgation of proficiency standards and quality assurance measures; certification to acquire and transport organs, etc.; updating of quality assurance standards. (a) The Chairman of the Department of Surgery of the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is authorized to establish and promulgate the standards of proficiency and fitness and measures and procedures for quality assurance in the acquiring and/or transporting of organs, bones, and tissues retrieved in Alabama. (b) The Chairman of the Department of Surgery of the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham shall certify when a person shall be allowed to acquire and/or transport any organ, bone or tissue retrieved in Alabama. The chairman shall not certify any person to acquire and/or transport any organ, bone or tissue to be retrieved in Alabama until such person possesses and demonstrates to the chairman the necessary knowledge and technical skills to comply with the established standards of proficiency and fitness. (c) After the chairman establishes and promulgates the initial standards of quality assurance, any proposed subsequent updating, except to meet federal standards, are to be circulated for comment only, to any institution in Alabama then performing organ transplants. The chairman shall still have the final and sole decision to establish and promulgate whatever is appropriate for updating the standards of quality assurance. (Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §3.)
AL Code § 22-19-123 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues.|Section 22-19-123 - Adherence to Quality Assurance Standards.

Section 22-19-123Adherence to quality assurance standards. Any person providing any service pertaining to the acquisition and/or transportation of donor organs, bones and tissues retrieved in Alabama, shall strictly adhere to and follow the established quality assurance standards of proficiency and fitness and measures and procedures as established and promulgated by the chairman. (Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §4.)
AL Code § 22-19-124 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues.|Section 22-19-124 - Sanctions for Violations of Article.

Section 22-19-124Sanctions for violations of article. Any person providing services in violation of the established policies and procedures and standards for quality assurance, as established and promulgated by the chairman, shall not receive reimbursement for such services. This provision applies to all reimbursement programs administered by the State of Alabama. Recommendations, by the chairman, will be made to other reimbursing agencies that reimbursement be denied. (Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §5.)
AL Code § 22-19-125 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues.|Section 22-19-125 - Immunity of Persons Complying With Article and Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.

Section 22-19-125Immunity of persons complying with article and Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. Any person who, in good faith, follows the policies and procedures and standards as established by the chairman for quality assurance, and complies with the provisions of the Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, shall not have any liability, either civil or criminal, for such acquiring, and/or transporting any organs, bones, or tissues retrieved in Alabama. (Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §6.)
AL Code § 22-19-126 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues.|Section 22-19-126 - Construction With Other Laws; State Standards to Be Consistent With Federal Standards.

Section 22-19-126Construction with other laws; state standards to be consistent with federal standards. (a) The provisions of this article are cumulative and insofar as possible, they shall be construed in pari materia with other laws relating to the public health and anatomical gifts. (b) At such time that standards of quality assurance for the acquisition and/or transporting and/or transplanting of donated organs, bones and tissues are adopted by the federal government, said Alabama standards of quality assurance shall be consistent with the appropriate federal regulations. (Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §7.)
AL Code § 22-19-140 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 8 - Lifesaving Organ Procurement Act.|Section 22-19-140 - Legislative Intent.

Section 22-19-140Legislative intent. (a) The Legislature of Alabama is acutely aware of the serious shortage of organs needed for transplantation. In its concern with this shortage of organs, the Legislature intends to establish in this article, a mechanism for the requesting of donor organs of any person who has died in a hospital and has not made an anatomical gift to take effect upon death. (b) The Legislature of Alabama believes the citizens of Alabama are compassionate and loving, and, in the appropriate circumstances, will respond to the request for organs for transplantation in that such a gift is, many times, literally, a "gift of life". (c) It is also the intent of the Legislature of Alabama to encourage organ donation in Alabama by establishing "The Lifesaving Organ Procurement Act of 1986." (Acts 1986, No. 86-226, p. 333, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-141 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 8 - Lifesaving Organ Procurement Act.|Section 22-19-141 - Definitions.

Section 22-19-141Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ORGAN. Organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood or other fluids and any other part or portions of a human body. (2) ATTENDING PHYSICIAN. The physician selected by, or assigned to, the patient and who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient. (Acts 1986, No. 86-226, p. 333, §2.)
AL Code § 22-19-142 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 8 - Lifesaving Organ Procurement Act.|Section 22-19-142 - Request for Consent to an Anatomical Gift; Request Not Required Where Anatomical Gift Would Not Be Suitable for Use.

Section 22-19-142Request for consent to an anatomical gift; request not required where anatomical gift would not be suitable for use. (a) When death occurs in a hospital to a patient who has not made an anatomical gift to take effect upon death, the hospital administrator, or designated representative, shall request the person described in Section 22-19-42(b), in the order of priority stated, when persons in prior classes are not available at the time of death, and in the absence of actual notice of contrary indication by the decedent or one in a prior class, to consent to the gift of organs of the decedent's body as an anatomical gift. (b) Where such request is made, pursuant to this section, the request and its disposition shall be noted in the patient's medical record. (c) Where, based upon medical criteria, such request would not yield an anatomical gift which would be suitable for use, there is an authorized exception to the request required by this section. (d) Where, based upon the attending physician's special and peculiar knowledge of the decedent and/or the circumstances surrounding the death of the patient, the attending physician, in his/her sole judgment, may determine that a request shall not be made for an anatomical gift, such determination shall be noted in the patient's medical record. Such a determination and noting in the patient's medical record shall be an exception to the request required by this section. (Acts 1986, No. 86-226, p. 333, §3.)
AL Code § 22-19-143 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 8 - Lifesaving Organ Procurement Act.|Section 22-19-143 - Immunity of Persons Complying With Article.

Section 22-19-143Immunity of persons complying with article. Any person who acts in good faith in accord with the terms of this article or with the anatomical gift laws of this state, or another state, or a foreign country shall not be liable for damages in any civil action or subject to prosecution in any criminal proceeding for such act. (Acts 1986, No. 86-226, p. 333, §4.)
AL Code § 22-19-144 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 8 - Lifesaving Organ Procurement Act.|Section 22-19-144 - Construction With Other Laws.

Section 22-19-144Construction with other laws. The provisions of this article are cumulative and, insofar as possible, they shall be construed in pari materia with other laws relating to the public health and anatomical gifts. (Acts 1986, No. 86-226, p. 333, §5.)
AL Code § 22-19-160 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.|Section 22-19-160 - Short Title.

Section 22-19-160Short title. This article may be cited as the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-162 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.|Section 22-19-162 - Applicability.

Section 22-19-162Applicability. This article applies to an anatomical gift or amendment to, revocation of, or refusal to make an anatomical gift, whenever made. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-163 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.|Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.|Section 22-19-163 - Who May Make Anatomical Gift Before Donor's Death.

Section 22-19-163Who may make anatomical gift before donor's death. Subject to Section 22-19-167, an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education in the manner provided in Section 22-19-164 by: (1) the donor, if the donor is an adult or if the donor is a minor and is: (A) emancipated; or (B) authorized under state law to apply for a driver's license because the donor is at least 16 years of age; (2) an agent of the donor, unless the power of attorney for health care or other record prohibits the agent from making an anatomical gift; (3) a parent of the donor, if the donor is an unemancipated minor; or (4) the donor's guardian. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)