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Ohio Rev Code § 2108.70 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.70 | Assignment of Rights Regarding Disposition of Remains.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section and sections 2108.71 to 2108.90 of the Revised Code:(1) "Adult" means an individual who is eighteen years of age or older.(2) "Declarant" means an adult who has executed a written declaration described in division (B) of this section.(3) "Representative" means an adult or a group of adults, collectively, to whom a declarant has assigned the right of disposition.(4) "Right of disposition" means one or more of the rights described in division (B) of this section that a declarant chooses to assign to a representative in a written declaration executed under that division or all of the rights described in division (B) of this section that are assigned to a person pursuant to section 2108.81 of the Revised Code.(5) "Successor representative" means an adult or group of adults, collectively, to whom the right of disposition for a declarant has been reassigned because the declarant's representative is disqualified from exercising the right under section 2108.75 of the Revised Code. Each successor representative shall be considered in the order the representative is designated by the declarant.(B) An adult who is of sound mind may execute at any time a written declaration assigning to a representative one or more of the following rights:(1) The right to direct the disposition, after death, of the declarant's body or any part of the declarant's body that becomes separated from the body before death. This right includes the right to determine the location, manner, and conditions of the disposition of the declarant's bodily remains.(2) The right to make arrangements and purchase goods and services for the declarant's funeral. This right includes the right to determine the location, manner, and condition of the declarant's funeral.(3) The right to make arrangements and purchase goods and services for the declarant's burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition. This right includes the right to determine the location, manner, and condition of the declarant's burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition.(C)(1) Subject to division (C)(2) of this section, a declarant may designate a successor representative.(2) If a representative is a group of persons and not all of the persons in the group meet at least one criterion to be disqualified from serving as the representative, as described in section 2108.75 of the Revised Code, the persons in the group who are not disqualified shall remain the representative who has the right of disposition.(D) The assignment or reassignment of a right of disposition to a representative and a successor representative supercedes an assignment of a right of disposition under section 2108.81 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.71 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.71 | Vesting of Assignment of Right of Disposition.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|The assignment or reassignment of a right of disposition by a declarant under section 2108.70 of the Revised Code vests in a representative or a successor representative at the time of the declarant's death.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.73 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.73 | Witnesses to Declaration of Assignment.

Effective: September 17, 2010|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 449 - 128th General Assembly|A written declaration executed by a declarant under section 2108.70 of the Revised Code shall be signed and dated by the declarant in the presence of one of the following: (A) A notary public who shall make the certification described in section 147.53 of the Revised Code.(B) Two witnesses who are adults and who are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the declarant.(C) If the written declaration is a DD Form 93, Record of Emergency Data, by whomever the form requires.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.74 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.74 | Declarant Warrants Truth of Declaration.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|A declarant who executes a written declaration in accordance with section 2108.73 of the Revised Code warrants the truthfulness of the entire content of the declaration.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.75 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.75 | Disqualification of Assignee of Right of Disposition.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|(A) A person shall be disqualified from serving as a representative or successor representative, or from having the right of disposition for a deceased adult pursuant to section 2108.81 of the Revised Code, if any of the following occurs:(1) The person dies.(2) A probate court declares or determines that the person is incompetent.(3) The person resigns or declines to exercise the right as described in section 2108.88 of the Revised Code.(4) The person refuses to exercise the right within two days after notification of the declarant's death.(5) The person cannot be located with reasonable effort.(6) The person meets the criteria described in section 2108.76 or 2108.77 of the Revised Code.(B) No owner, employee, or agent of a funeral home, cemetery, or crematory providing funeral, burial, or cremation services for a declarant shall serve as a representative or successor representative for the declarant unless the owner, employee, or agent is related to the declarant by blood, marriage, or adoption.(C) Subject to divisions (C)(2) and (D)(2) of section 2108.70 of the Revised Code, if a person is disqualified from serving as the declarant's representative or successor representative, or from having the right of disposition for a deceased adult pursuant to section 2108.81 of the Revised Code, as described in division (A) of this section, the right is automatically reassigned to, and vests in, the next person who has the right pursuant to the declarant's written declaration or pursuant to the order of priority in section 2108.81 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.76 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.76 | Assignee No Longer Declarant's Spouse.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, if the person named as the declarant's representative or successor representative in a written declaration was the declarant's spouse at the time the declaration was executed, but is not the declarant's spouse at the time of the declarant's death, the former spouse shall no longer be qualified to serve as the declarant's representative or successor representative.(B) Division (A) of this section shall not apply and a former spouse is qualified to serve as a declarant's representative or successor representative if the declarant signs and dates, after the termination of the marriage, a document stating the declarant's intent that the former spouse be the declarant's representative or successor representative. The document must be notarized or witnessed in accordance with the procedures described in section 2108.73 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.77 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.77 | Loss of Assigned Right of Disposition.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|If the person named as the declarant's representative or successor representative in a written declaration, or the person who has a deceased adult's right of disposition pursuant to section 2108.81 of the Revised Code, meets any of the following criteria, the person shall be disqualified from serving as the representative or successor representative, or from having the right:(A)(1) Subject to division (A)(2) of this section, the person has been charged with murder, aggravated murder, or voluntary manslaughter.(2) If the charges against the person described in division (A)(1) of this section are dismissed or if the person is acquitted of such charges, the right is restored to the person.(B)(1) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, the person has been charged with an act of domestic violence under section 2919.25 of the Revised Code and it has been alleged in the charging instrument or accompanying papers that the act resulted in or contributed to the declarant's death.(2) If the charges against the person described in division (B)(1) of this section are dismissed or if the person is acquitted of such charges, the right is restored to the person.(C) The person and the declarant or deceased adult are spouses and an action to terminate the marriage pursuant to Chapter 3105. of the Revised Code was pending at the time of the declarant's or deceased adult's death.(D) The person and the declarant or deceased adult are spouses and a probate court, on the motion of any other person or its own motion, determines that the declarant's or deceased adult's spouse and the declarant were estranged at the time of the declarant's or deceased adult's death. As used in this division, "estranged" means that a declarant's or a deceased adult's spouse and the declarant or deceased adult were physically and emotionally separated from each other, at the time of the declarant's or deceased adult's death, and had been separated for a period of time that clearly demonstrates an absence of due affection, trust, and regard between spouse and the declarant of deceased adult.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.78 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.78 | Assignee Bound by Declaration of Anatomical Gift.

Effective: April 7, 2009|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 529 - 127th General Assembly|If a declarant or deceased adult has made an anatomical gift under sections 2108.01 to 2108.29 of the Revised Code, any person to whom the declarant has assigned the right of disposition under section 2108.70 of the Revised Code, or who has the right as described in section 2108.81 of the Revised Code, is bound by the anatomical gift and must follow the instructions associated with the gift before making any decisions or taking any other actions associated with the right.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.79 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.79 | Multiple Assignees - Majority Rule - Deadlock.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|(A) Subject to divisions (B) and (C) of this section, if a declarant's representative or successor representative is a group of people in whom the right of disposition has vested as described in section 2108.71 of the Revised Code, or if a class of persons has the right as described in section 2108.81 of the Revised Code, and the persons in the group or class disagree regarding how the right is to be exercised, the decisions of the majority of the persons in the group or class shall prevail.(B) If, after reasonable efforts, less than all of the persons in a group or class described in division (A) of this section have been located, the decisions of the majority of the persons in the group or class who have been located prevail.(C) If a majority of persons cannot reach a decision under division (A) or (B) of this section, the probate court of the county in which the declarant or deceased person resided at the time of death shall make the decision in accordance with the criteria set forth in division (B) of section 2108.82 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.80 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.80 | Revocation of Declaration of Assignment.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|A declarant may revoke a written declaration executed under section 2108.70 of the Revised Code by indicating the declarant's desire to revoke the declaration in a document signed and dated by the declarant in the presence of either of the following:(A) A notary public who shall make the certification described in section 147.53 of the Revised Code.(B) Two witnesses who are adults and are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the declarant.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.81 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.81 | Right of Disposition - No Declaration of Assignment.

Effective: July 6, 2009|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 196 - 127th General Assembly|(A) If either of the following is true, division (B) of this section shall apply: (1) An adult has not executed a written declaration pursuant to sections 2108.70 to 2108.73 of the Revised Code that remains in force at the time of the adult's death.(2) Each person to whom the right of disposition has been assigned or reassigned pursuant to a written declaration is disqualified from exercising the right as described in section 2108.75 of the Revised Code.(B) Subject to division (A) of this section and sections 2108.75 and 2108.79 of the Revised Code, the right of disposition is assigned to the following persons, if mentally competent adults who can be located with reasonable effort, in the order of priority stated:(1) The deceased person's surviving spouse;(2) The sole surviving child of the deceased person or, if there is more than one surviving child, all of the surviving children, collectively;(3) The deceased person's surviving parent or parents;(4) The deceased person's surviving sibling, whether of the whole or of the half blood or, if there is more than one sibling of the whole or of the half blood, all of the surviving siblings, collectively;(5) The deceased person's surviving grandparent or grandparents;(6) The deceased person's surviving grandchild, or if there is more than one surviving grandchild, all of the surviving grandchildren collectively;(7) The lineal descendants of the deceased person's grandparents, as described in division (I) of section 2105.06 of the Revised Code;(8) The person who was the deceased person's guardian at the time of the deceased person's death, if a guardian had been appointed;(9) Any other person willing to assume the right of disposition, including the personal representative of the deceased person's estate or the licensed funeral director with custody of the deceased person's body, after attesting in writing that a good faith effort has been made to locate the persons in divisions (B)(1) to (8) of this section.(10) If the deceased person was an indigent person or other person the final disposition of whose body is the financial and statutory responsibility of the state or a political subdivision of this state, the public officer or employee responsible for arranging the final disposition of the remains of the deceased person.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.82 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.82 | Assignment of Right of Disposition by Probate Court.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|(A) Notwithstanding section 2108.81 of the Revised Code and in accordance with division (B) of this section, the probate court for the county in which the declarant or deceased person resided at the time of death may, on its own motion or the motion of another person, assign to any person the right of disposition for a declarant or deceased person.(B) In making a determination for purposes of division (A) of this section and division (C) of section 2108.79 of the Revised Code, the court shall consider the following:(1) Whether evidence presented to, or in the possession of the court, demonstrates that the person who is the subject of the motion and the declarant or deceased person had a close personal relationship;(2) The reasonableness and practicality of any plans that the person who is the subject of the motion may have for the declarant's or deceased person's funeral, burial, cremation, or final disposition, including the degree to which such plans allow maximum participation by all persons who wish to pay their final respects to the deceased person;(3) The willingness of the person who is the subject of the motion to assume the responsibility to pay for the declarant's or deceased person's funeral, burial, cremation, or final disposition and the desires of that person;(4) The convenience and needs of other families and friends wishing to pay their final respects to the declarant or deceased person;(5) The express written desires of the declarant or deceased person.(C) Except to the extent considered under division (B)(3) of this section, the following persons do not have a greater claim to the right of disposition than such persons otherwise have pursuant to law:(1) A person who is willing to assume the responsibility to pay for the declarant's or deceased person's funeral, burial, cremation, or final disposition;(2) The personal representative of the declarant or deceased person.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.83 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.83 | Dispute Regarding Right of Disposition.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|In the event of a dispute regarding the right of disposition, a funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, cemetery operator, cemetery organization, or other person asked to assist with a declarant's or deceased person's funeral, burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition shall not be liable for damages of any kind for refusing to accept the remains, refusing to inter, cremate, or otherwise dispose of the remains, or refusing to complete funeral or other arrangements pertaining to final disposition until such funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, cemetery operator, cemetery organization, or other person receives a court order or a written document that is executed by a person that the funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, cemetery operator, cemetery organization, or other person reasonably believes has the right of disposition and that clearly expresses how the right of disposition is to be exercised.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.84 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.84 | Procedure Pending Resolution of Dispute.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|If a funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, or other person asked to assist with a declarant's or deceased person's funeral, burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition is in possession of a declarant's or deceased person's remains while a dispute described in section 2108.83 of the Revised Code is pending, the funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, or other person may embalm or refrigerate and shelter the remains to preserve them and may add the cost of embalming, refrigeration, and sheltering to the final disposition costs to be charged.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.85 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.85 | Costs and Legal Fees Arising From Legal Action.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|(A) If a funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, cemetery operator, cemetery organization, or other person asked to assist with a declarant's or deceased person's funeral, burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition brings a legal action for purposes of section 2108.83 or 2108.84 of the Revised Code, the funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, cemetery operator, cemetery organization, or other person may add to the costs the person charges for the goods and services the person provided the legal fees, if reasonable, and the court costs that the person incurred.(B) The right created by division (A) of this section shall neither be construed to require, nor impose a duty on, a funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, cemetery operator, cemetery organization, or other person asked to assist with a declarant's or deceased person's funeral, burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition, to bring a legal action and such person shall not be held criminally or civilly liable for not bringing an action.
Ohio Rev Code § 2108.86 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof|Section 2108.86 | Right to Rely on Declaration and Instructions.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|(A) A funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, cemetery operator, cemetery organization, or other person asked to assist with a declarant's funeral, burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition has the right to rely on the content of a written declaration and the instructions of the person or group of persons whom the funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, cemetery operator, cemetery organization, or other person reasonably believes has the right of disposition.(B) If the circumstances described in division (A) of section 2108.81 of the Revised Code apply, a funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, cemetery operator, cemetery organization, or other person asked to assist with a deceased person's funeral, burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition has the right to rely on the instructions of the person or group of persons the funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, cemetery operator, cemetery organization, or other person reasonably believes has the right of disposition pursuant to section 2108.81 of the Revised Code.(C) No funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, cemetery operator, cemetery organization, or other person asked to assist with a deceased person's funeral, burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition, who relies, pursuant to divisions (A) and (B) of this section, in good faith on the contents of a written declaration or the instructions of the person or group of persons the funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, cemetery operator, cemetery organization, or other person reasonably believes has the right of disposition, shall be subject to criminal or civil liability or subject to disciplinary action for taking an action or not taking an action in reliance on such contents or instructions and for otherwise complying with sections 2108.70 to 2108.90 of the Revised Code.