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AL Code § 22-19-164 (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 22-19-164 - Manner of Making Anatomical Gift Before Donor's Death.

Section 22-19-164Manner of making anatomical gift before donor's death. (a) A donor may make an anatomical gift: (1) by authorizing a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift to be imprinted on the donor's driver's license or identification card; (2) in a will; (3) during a terminal illness or injury of the donor, by any form of communication addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness; or  (4) as provided in subsection (b). (b) A donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-163 may make a gift by a donor card or other record signed by the donor or other person making the gift or by authorizing that a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift be included on a donor registry. If the donor or other person is physically unable to sign a record, the record may be signed by another individual at the direction of the donor or other person and must: (1) be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the donor or the other person; and  (2) state that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in subdivision (1). (c) Revocation, suspension, expiration, or cancellation of a driver's license or identification card upon which an anatomical gift is indicated does not invalidate the gift. (d) An anatomical gift made by will takes effect upon the donor's death whether or not the will is probated. Invalidation of the will after the donor's death does not invalidate the gift. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-165 (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 22-19-165 - Amending or Revoking Anatomical Gift Before Donor's Death.

Section 22-19-165Amending or revoking anatomical gift before donor's death. (a) Subject to Section 22-19-167, a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-163 may amend or revoke an anatomical gift by: (1) a record signed by: (A) the donor; (B) the other person; or (C) subject to subsection (b), another individual acting at the direction of the donor or the other person if the donor or other person is physically unable to sign; or (2) a later-executed document of gift that amends or revokes a previous anatomical gift or portion of an anatomical gift, either expressly or by inconsistency. (b) A record signed pursuant to subsection (a)(1)(C) must: (1) be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the donor or the other person; and (2) state that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in subdivision (1). (c) Subject to Section 22-19-167, a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-163 may revoke an anatomical gift by the destruction or cancellation of the document of gift, or the portion of the document of gift used to make the gift, with the intent to revoke the gift. (d) A donor may amend or revoke an anatomical gift that was not made in a will by any form of communication during a terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness. (e) A donor who makes an anatomical gift in a will may amend or revoke the gift in the manner provided for amendment or revocation of wills or as provided in subsection (a). (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-166 (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 22-19-166 - Refusal to Make Anatomical Gift; Effect of Refusal.

Section 22-19-166Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal. (a) An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part by: (1) a record signed by: (A) the individual; or (B) subject to subsection (b), another individual acting at the direction of the individual if the individual is physically unable to sign; (2) the individual's will, whether or not the will is admitted to probate or invalidated after the individual's death; or (3) any form of communication made by the individual during the individual's terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness. (b) A record signed pursuant to subsection (a)(1)(B) must: (1) be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the individual; and (2) state that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in subdivision (1). (c) An individual who has made a refusal may amend or revoke the refusal: (1) in the manner provided in subsection (a) for making a refusal; (2) by subsequently making an anatomical gift pursuant to Section 22-19-164 that is inconsistent with the refusal; or (3) 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. (d) Except as otherwise provided in Section 22-19-167(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. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-167 (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 22-19-167 - Preclusive Effect of Anatomical Gift, Amendment, or Revocation.

Section 22-19-167Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation. (a) 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 22-19-164 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-165. (b) A donor's revocation of an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-165 is not a refusal and does not bar another person specified in Section 22-19-163 or 22-19-168 from making an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-164 or 22-19-169. (c) If a person other than the donor makes an unrevoked anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-164 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-165, another person may not make, amend, or revoke the gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-169. (d) A revocation of an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part under Section 22-19-165 by a person other than the donor does not bar another person from making an anatomical gift of the body or part under Section 22-19-164 or 22-19-169. (e) In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-163, 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. (f) In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-163, an anatomical gift of a part for one or more of the purposes set forth in Section 22-19-163 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 22-19-164 or 22-19-169. (g) 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. (h) If an unemancipated minor who signed a refusal dies, a parent of the minor who is reasonably available may revoke the minor's refusal. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-168 (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 22-19-168 - Who May Make Anatomical Gift of Decedent's Body or Part.

Section 22-19-168Who may make anatomical gift of decedent's body or part. (a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c) and unless barred by Section 22-19-166 or 22-19-167, 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 at the time of death who could have made an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-163(2) immediately before the decedent's death; (2) the spouse of the decedent; (3) adult children of the decedent; (4) parents of the decedent; (5) adult siblings of the decedent; (6) adult grandchildren of the decedent; (7) grandparents of the decedent; (8) an adult who exhibited special care and concern for the decedent; (9) the persons who were acting as the guardians of the person of the decedent at the time of death; and (10) 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 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 22-19-170 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. (c) 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. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-169 (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 22-19-169 - Manner of Making, Amending, or Revoking Anatomical Gift of Decedent's Body or Part.

Section 22-19-169Manner of making, amending, or revoking anatomical gift of decedent's body or part. (a) A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-168 may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by the person making the gift or by that person's oral communication that is electronically recorded or is contemporaneously reduced to a record and signed by the individual receiving the oral communication. (b) Subject to subsection (c), an anatomical gift by a person authorized under Section 22-19-168 may be amended or revoked orally or in a record by any member of a prior class who is reasonably available. If more than one member of the prior class is reasonably available, the gift made by a person authorized under Section 22-19-168 may be: (1) amended only if a majority of the reasonably available members agree to the amending of the gift; or (2) revoked only if a majority of the reasonably available members agree to the revoking of the gift or if they are equally divided as to whether to revoke the gift. (c) A revocation under subsection (b) is effective only if, before an incision has been made to remove a part from the donor's body or before invasive procedures have begun to prepare the recipient, the procurement organization, transplant hospital, or physician, surgeon, surgeon's assistant, certified procurement transplant coordinator (certified by the Alabama Organ Center), tissue recovery technician (certified by the Alabama Organ Center), or technician certified by the Eye Bank after completing training according to the medical standards of the Eye Bank Association of America to carry out the appropriate procedures knows of the revocation. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-171 (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 22-19-171 - Search and Notification.

Section 22-19-171Search and notification. (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 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. (c) 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. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-172 (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 22-19-172 - Delivery of Document of Gift Not Required; Right to Examine.

Section 22-19-172Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine. (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 22-19-170. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-174 (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 22-19-174 - Coordination of Procurement and Use.

Section 22-19-174Coordination 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. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-175 (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 22-19-175 - Sale or Purchase of Parts Prohibited.

Section 22-19-175Sale or purchase of parts prohibited. (a) 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 Class C felony. (b) A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a part. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-176 (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 22-19-176 - Other Prohibited Acts.

Section 22-19-176Other 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 Class C felony. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-177 (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 22-19-177 - Immunity.

Section 22-19-177Immunity. (a) In the absence of wantonness or willful misconduct, a person that acts in accordance with this article or with the applicable anatomical gift law of another state, or attempts in good faith to do so, is not liable for the act in a civil action, criminal prosecution, or administrative proceeding. (b) In the absence of wantonness or willful misconduct, 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) In determining whether an anatomical gift has been made, amended, or revoked under this article, a person may rely upon representations of an individual listed in Section 22-19-168(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. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-178 (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 22-19-178 - Law Governing Validity; Choice of Law as to Execution of Document of Gift; Presumption of Validity.

Section 22-19-178Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity. (a) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with: (1) this article; (2) the laws of the state or country where it 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. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-179 (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 22-19-179 - Donor Registry.

Section 22-19-179Donor registry. (a) The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency may establish or contract for the establishment of a donor registry. (b) The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency 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. (c) A donor registry must: (1) allow a donor or other person authorized under Section 22-19-163 to include on the donor registry a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift; (2) 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 (3) be accessible for purposes of subdivisions (1) and (2) seven days a week on a 24-hour basis. (d) 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. (e) 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). (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-180 (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 22-19-180 - Effect of Anatomical Gift on Advance Health Care Directive.

Section 22-19-180Effect of anatomical gift on advance health care directive. (a) In this section: (1) "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. (2) "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. (3) "Health care decision" means any decision regarding the health care of the prospective donor. (b) 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 this article 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 22-19-168. 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. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
AL Code § 22-19-183 (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 22-19-183 - Uniformity of Application and Construction.

Section 22-19-183Uniformity of application and construction.  In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)