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MS Code § 41-39-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-113. Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal

 An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part by:    A record signed by:   The individual's will, whether or not the will is admitted to probate or invalidated after the individual's death; or   Any form of communication made by the individual during the individual's terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two (2) adults, at least one (1) of whom is a disinterested witness.    The individual; or   Subject to subsection (b), another individual acting at the direction of the individual if the individual is physically unable to sign;   A record signed pursuant to subsection (a)(1)(B) must:   Be witnessed by at least two (2) adults, at least one (1) of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the individual; and   State that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in paragraph (1).   An individual who has made a refusal may amend or revoke the refusal:   In the manner provided in subsection (a) for making a refusal;   By subsequently making an anatomical gift pursuant to Section 41-39-109 that is inconsistent with the refusal; or   By destroying or canceling the record evidencing the refusal, or the portion of the record used to make the refusal, with the intent to revoke the refusal.   Except as otherwise provided in Section 41-39-115(h), in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the individual set forth in the refusal, an individual's unrevoked refusal to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part bars all other persons from making an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part.
MS Code § 41-39-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-115. Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation

 Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) and subject to subsection (f), in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor, a person other than the donor is barred from making, amending, or revoking an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part if the donor made an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-109 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-111.   A donor's revocation of an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-111 is not a refusal and does not bar another person specified in Section 41-39-107 or 41-39-117 from making an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-109 or 41-39-119.   If a person other than the donor makes an unrevoked anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-109 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-111, another person may not make, amend, or revoke the gift of the donor's body or part under Section 41-39-119.   A revocation of an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part under Section 41-39-111 by a person other than the donor does not bar another person from making an anatomical gift of the body or part under Section 41-39-109 or 41-39-119.   In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 41-39-107, an anatomical gift of a part is neither a refusal to give another part nor a limitation on the making of an anatomical gift of another part at a later time by the donor or another person.   In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 41-39-107, an anatomical gift of a part for one or more of the purposes set forth in Section 41-39-107 is not a limitation on the making of an anatomical gift of the part for any of the other purposes by the donor or any other person under Section 41-39-109 or 41-39-119.   If a donor who is an unemancipated minor dies, a parent of the donor who is reasonably available may revoke or amend an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part.   If an unemancipated minor who signed a refusal dies, a parent of the minor who is reasonably available may revoke the minor's refusal.
MS Code § 41-39-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-117. Who may make anatomical gift of decedent's body or part

 Subject to subsections (b) and (c) and unless barred by Section 41-39-113 or 41-39-115, 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:    An agent of the decedent at the time of death who could have made an anatomical gift under Section 41-39-107(2) immediately before the decedent's death;   The spouse of the decedent;   Adult children of the decedent;   Parents of the decedent;   Adult siblings of the decedent;   Adult grandchildren of the decedent;   Grandparents of the decedent;   An adult who exhibited special care and concern for the decedent;   The persons who were acting as the guardians of the person of the decedent at the time of death; and   Any other person having the authority to dispose of the decedent's body.    If there is more than one (1) member of a class listed in subsection (a) (1), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), or (9) entitled to make an anatomical gift, an anatomical gift may be made by a member of the class unless that member or a person to which the gift may pass under Section 41-39-121 knows of an objection by another 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.   A person may not make an anatomical gift if, at the time of the decedent's death, a person in a prior class under subsection (a) is reasonably available to make or to object to the making of an anatomical gift.
MS Code § 41-39-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-119. Manner of making, amending, or revoking anatomical gift of decedent's body or part

 A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 41-39-117 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.   Subject to subsection (c), an anatomical gift by a person authorized under Section 41-39-117 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 (1) member of the prior class is reasonably available, the gift made by a person authorized under Section 41-39-117 may be:    Amended only if a majority of the reasonably available members agree to the amending of the gift; or   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.    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.
MS Code § 41-39-123 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-123. Search and notification

 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:    A law enforcement officer, fire fighter, paramedic, or other emergency rescuer finding the individual; and   If no other source of the information is immediately available, a hospital, as soon as practical after the individual's arrival at the hospital.    If a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift is located by the search required by subsection (a) (1) and the individual or deceased individual to whom it relates is taken to a hospital, the person responsible for conducting the search shall send the document of gift or refusal to the hospital.   A person is not subject to criminal or civil liability for failing to discharge the duties imposed by this section but may be subject to administrative sanctions.
MS Code § 41-39-125 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-125. Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine

 A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor's lifetime to be effective.   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 41-39-121.
MS Code § 41-39-129 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-129. Coordination of procurement and use

 Each hospital in this state shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts.
MS Code § 41-39-131 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-131. Sale or purchase of parts prohibited

 Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), 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 commits a felony and upon conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) or imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years, or both.   A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a part.
MS Code § 41-39-133 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-133. Other prohibited acts

 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 commits a felony and upon conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) or imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years, or both.
MS Code § 41-39-135 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-135. Immunity

 Any person who, in good faith and acting in reliance upon and authorization made under the provisions of Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149 and without notice of revocation thereof, takes possession of, performs surgical operations upon, removes tissue, substances or parts from the human body, or refuses such a gift, and any person who unknowingly fails to carry out the wishes of the donor according to the provisions of Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149 shall not be liable for damages in a civil action brought against him for that act.   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.   In determining whether an anatomical gift has been made, amended, or revoked under Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149, a person may rely upon representations of an individual listed in Section 41-39-117(a) (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), or (8) relating to the individual's relationship to the donor or prospective donor unless the person knows that the representation is untrue.
MS Code § 41-39-137 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-137. Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity

 A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with:    Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149;   The laws of the state or country where it was executed; or   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.    If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift.   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.
MS Code § 41-39-139 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-139. Donor registry

 The Mississippi Department of Public Safety may establish or contract for the establishment of a donor registry.   The Mississippi Department of Public Safety shall cooperate with a person that administers any donor registry that this state establishes, contracts for, or recognizes for the purpose of transferring to the donor registry all relevant information regarding a donor's making, amendment to, or revocation of an anatomical gift.   A donor registry must:    Allow a donor or other person authorized under Section 41-39-107 to include on the donor registry a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift;   Be accessible to a procurement organization to allow it 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, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift; and   Be accessible for purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) seven (7) days a week on a twenty-four-hour basis.    Except as otherwise provided in subsection (f), personally identifiable information on a donor registry about 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, at or near death of the donor or prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift.   This section does not prohibit any person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the state. Any such registry must comply with subsections (c) and (d).   At the time that a person is renewing his or her driver's license, the Department of Public Safety shall ask the person if he or she would like to be a donor. If the answer is yes, the department shall inform the prospective donor that his or her decision to be a donor cannot be revoked, changed or contested after his or her death by the donor's next of kin or by any other person, and shall ask the person if he or she desires information about the person's decision to be a donor to be sent to another person or persons. If the answer is yes, the department shall obtain the name and mailing address of the person or persons designated by the prospective donor, and the donor registry shall send the information about the prospective donor's decision to the designated person or persons as requested.
MS Code § 41-39-141 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-141. Effect of anatomical gift on advance health-care directive

 In this section:    "Advance health care directive" means a power of attorney for health care or a record signed or authorized by a prospective donor containing the prospective donor's direction concerning a health care decision for the prospective donor.   "Declaration" means a record signed by a prospective donor specifying the circumstances under which a life support system may be withheld or withdrawn from the prospective donor.   "Health care decision" means any decision regarding the health care of the prospective donor.    If a prospective donor has a declaration or advance health care directive and the terms of the declaration or directive and the express or implied terms of a potential anatomical gift are in conflict with regard to the administration of measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of a part for transplantation or therapy, the prospective donor's attending physician and prospective donor shall confer to resolve the conflict. If the prospective donor is incapable of resolving the conflict, an agent acting under the prospective donor's declaration or directive, or, if none or the agent is not reasonably available, another person authorized by law other than Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149 to make health care decisions on behalf of the prospective donor, shall act for the donor to resolve the conflict. The conflict must be resolved as expeditiously as possible. Information relevant to the resolution of the conflict may be obtained from the appropriate procurement organization and any other person authorized to make an anatomical gift for the prospective donor under Section 41-39-117. Before resolution of the conflict, measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of the part may not be withheld or withdrawn from the prospective donor if withholding or withdrawing the measures is not contraindicated by appropriate end-of-life care.
MS Code § 41-39-143 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-143. Notification of medical examiner if deceased patient is subject of medical-legal death investigation

 If the deceased patient is medically suitable to be an organ and/or tissue donor, as determined by the procurement organization, and the donor and/or family has authorized the donation and transplantation, the donor's organs and/or tissues shall be removed for the purpose of donation and transplantation by the organ procurement organization, in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.   If the deceased patient is the subject of a medical-legal death investigation, the procurement organization shall immediately notify the appropriate medical examiner that the deceased patient is medically suitable to be an organ and/or tissue donor. If the medical examiner determines that examination, analysis or autopsy of the organs and/or tissue is necessary for the medical examiner's investigation, the medical examiner may be present while the organs and/or tissues are removed for the purpose of transplantation. The physician, surgeon or technician removing the organs and/or tissues shall file with the medical examiner a report detailing the donation, which shall become part of the medical examiner's report. When requested by the medical examiner, the report shall include a biopsy or medically approved sample, as specified by the medical examiner, from the donated organs and/or tissues.   In a medical-legal death investigation, decisions about organ and/or tissue donation and transplantation shall be made in accordance with a protocol established and agreed upon by majority vote of procurement organization, a certified state pathologist who shall be appointed by the Mississippi Commissioner of Public Safety, a representative from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, a representative from the Mississippi Coroners Association, an organ recipient who shall be appointed by the Governor, the Director of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, and a representative of the Mississippi Prosecutor's Association appointed by the Attorney General. The protocol shall be established so as to maximize the total number of organs and/or tissues available for donation and transplantation. Organs and/or tissues designated by virtue of this protocol shall be recovered. The protocol shall be reviewed and evaluated on an annual basis.
MS Code § 41-39-145 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-145. Uniformity of application and construction

 In applying and construing Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
MS Code § 41-39-147 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 39 - Disposition of Human Bodies or Parts|Revised Mississippi Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)|§ 41-39-147. Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act

 Sections 41-39-101 through 41-39-149 modify, limit, and supersede the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 USCS Section 7001 et seq., but do not modify, limit or supersede Section 101(a) of that act, 15 USCS Section 7001, or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that act, 15 USCS Section 7003(b).
MS Code § 41-41-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 41 - Surgical or Medical Procedures; Consents|In General|§ 41-41-1. Blood banking and transfusion procedures constitute services rather than sales; maximum usable life span of blood

 The procurement, processing, storage, distribution and/or use of whole blood, plasma, blood products and blood derivatives, human tissue, organs or bones for the purpose of injecting, transfusing, transplanting or transferring the same or any of them into the human body for all purposes whatsoever constitutes the rendering of a service by every person participating therein, whether or not any remuneration is paid therefor, and does not constitute a sale. The maximum usable life span or shelf life for human blood preserved in citrate phosphate dextrose shall be governed by federal regulations promulgated and adopted by the Food and Drug Administration.