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MA Gen L ch 113a § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 15 - Coordination of Procurement and Use

Section 15. Each hospital shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 16 - Sale or Purchase of Parts Prohibited

Section 16. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a person who for valuable consideration, knowingly purchases or sells a part for transplantation or therapy if removal of such part from an individual is intended to occur after the individual's death shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 5 years or in the house of correction for not more than 2.5 years, or by a fine of not more than $50,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.  (b) A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a part.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 17 - Other Prohibited Acts

Section 17. A person who, 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 to make a gift shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 5 years or in a house of correction for not more than 2.5 years or by a fine of not more than $50,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 18 - Immunity

Section 18. (a) A person who acts in accordance with this chapter or with the applicable anatomical gift law of another state or who attempts in good faith to do so, shall not be liable for the act in a civil action, criminal prosecution or administrative proceeding. Following a donor's designation in a donor registry, a signed statement by a donor in an advanced directive or donor card shall be prima facie evidence of good faith.  (b) Neither the person making an anatomical gift nor the donor's estate shall be 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 chapter, a person may rely upon representations of an individual listed in subsection (a) of section 9 relating to the individual's relationship to the donor or prospective donor unless the person knows that the representation is false.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 19 - Law Governing Validity; Choice of Law as to Execution of Document of Gift; Presumption of Validity

Section 19. (a) A document of gift shall be valid if executed in accordance with:  (1) this chapter;  (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, then this chapter shall govern 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.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 20 - Donor Registry

Section 20. (a) The registry of motor vehicles shall maintain the donor registry as set forth in section 8D of chapter 90 to identify individuals who have authorized an anatomical gift at the time of issuance of drivers' licenses, identification cards or renewals. The registrar may contract with qualified entities to assist with the continued development and maintenance of the donor registry and to secure grants from public and private sources and to receive and disburse funds which are assigned, donated or bequeathed to the registry of motor vehicles to cover the costs of the donor registry.  (b) A donor registry shall:  (1) provide a database that includes donors who have made anatomical gifts;  (2) provide a mechanism for an anatomical gift to be removed from the database;  (3) be accessible to a procurement organization to allow it to obtain relevant information on the donor registry to determine, at or near the death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made an anatomical gift; and  (4) be accessible for purposes of clauses (1) to (3), inclusive, 7 days a week on a 24–hour basis.  (c) Personally identifiable information on a donor registry about a donor or prospective donor shall 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 the death of the donor or prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended or revoked an anatomical gift.  (d) This section shall not prohibit a person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the commonwealth; provided, however, that any such registry shall comply with subsections (b) and (c).
MA Gen L ch 113a § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 21 - Cooperation Between Medical Examiner and Procurement Organization

Section 21. (a) The chief medical examiner and the district attorneys shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for transplantation, therapy, research or education.  (b) The procurement organization authorized to remove an anatomical gift from a donor whose death is under investigation shall remove the donated part from the donor's body after giving notice to the chief medical examiner and the appropriate district attorney, or their respective designees, subject to this section. The chief medical examiner and the district attorney, or their respective designees, shall approve or deny removal of the anatomical gift within a time period that ensures the preservation of the anatomical gift for transplantation. Unless the district attorney objects, the procurement organization may transport the donor's body for the removal of the anatomical gift consistent with this subsection; provided, however, that the procurement organization shall transport the donor's body to the medical examiner's facilities after removal of the anatomical gift when required. The chief medical examiner, or his designee, may permit the removal of the anatomical gift at the medical examiner's office. The chief medical examiner or district attorney, or their respective designees, shall be present during the removal of the anatomical gift if in their judgment such attendance would facilitate a donation that would otherwise be denied. In that case, the chief medical examiner or district attorney, or their respective designees, may request a biopsy or deny removal of the anatomical gift and shall explain the reasons for determining that those tissues or organs may be involved in the cause of death.  (c) No medical examiner, physician, procurement organization who acts or attempts to act in good faith in accordance with this section shall be liable for that act in a civil action or criminal proceeding.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 22 - Facilitation of Anatomical Gift From Decedent Whose Body Is Under Jurisdiction of Medical Examiner

Section 22. (a) The chief medical examiner shall release to the procurement organization such information as may be necessary to facilitate organ and tissue donation including, but not limited to, the name, contact information and available medical and social history of a decedent whose death has been reported pursuant to chapter 38. If the decedent's body or part is medically suitable for transplantation or therapy, the medical examiner shall release the autopsy reports to the procurement organization; provided, however, that in the case of a suspicious death where the district attorney is controlling the investigation pursuant to said chapter 38, the chief medical examiner or his designee shall not release an autopsy report unless informed by the district attorney that the autopsy report may be released. The procurement organization may make a subsequent disclosure of the postmortem examination results or other information received from the medical examiner only as necessary to facilitate transplantation or therapy.  (b) The medical examiner may conduct a medicolegal examination by reviewing all medical records, laboratory test results, xrays, other diagnostic results and other information that any person may possess about a donor or prospective donor whose death has been reported pursuant to chapter 38 which the medical examiner determines may be relevant to the investigation.  (c) A person that has any information requested by a medical examiner pursuant to subsection (b) shall provide that information as expeditiously as possible to allow the medical examiner to conduct the medicolegal investigation within a period compatible with the preservation of parts for transplantation, therapy, research or education.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 23 - Compliance With Donor's Decision

Section 23. An individual's decision to make a donation of that individual's own organ or tissue after death shall be complied with and shall not require the consent or concurrence of any other individual after the donor's death. In the absence of a revocation or amendment, health care providers and procurement organizations shall act in accordance with the donor's decision and may take such appropriate actions as necessary to effect the anatomical gift.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 24 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 24 - Uniformity of Application and Construction

Section 24. In applying and construing this chapter, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that have the uniform act or a similar law.
MA Gen L ch 113a § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 113a - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|Section 25 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act

Section 25. Whenever authorized by federal law and as required by this chapter, this chapter shall modify, limit and supersede the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. § 7001 et seq., except 15 U.S.C. § 7001(a); provided, however, that nothing in this chapter shall authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in 15 U.S.C. § 7003(b).
MA Gen L ch 114 § 1a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 1a - Organization of Cemetery Corporations

Section 1A. Five or more persons desirous of procuring, establishing and preparing a cemetery, or who are the majority in interest of the proprietors of an existing cemetery, may organize as a corporation, not for profit, in the manner provided in chapter 179; provided, however, that the corporation shall not sell or impair the right of a proprietor of an existing cemetery.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 1b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 1b - Cemetery Corporations; Liability of Directors, Officers or Trustees

Section 1B. A person who serves as director, officer or trustee of a nonprofit cemetery qualified as a tax exempt organization under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code and who is not compensated for those services shall not be liable for an act or omission resulting in damages or injury to another person if that person so serving was acting in good faith and within the scope of his official functions or duties, unless the damage was caused by an act or omission intentionally designed to harm, or by a gross negligent act or omission which results in harm to a person.  Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting or modifying the liability of a person subject to this section for a cause of action arising out of the person's operation of a motor vehicle.  Nothing in this section shall affect or modify the liability of a person subject to this section for financial misconduct or fraud in the use of the assets of the corporation.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 2 - Powers and Duties of Cemetery Corporations

Section 2. (a) Such corporation: (1) shall be subject to chapter 155 and sections 1 to 13, inclusive, of chapter 179; (2) may take and hold only so much real and personal property as may be necessary for the objects of its organization; (3) may lay out such real property into lots; and (4) may grant and convey the exclusive right of burial in, and of erecting tombs or cenotaphs upon, any lot and of ornamenting the same, upon such terms and conditions and subject to such regulations as it shall prescribe.  (b) Upon the conveyance of a burial lot, such corporation: (1) shall assign a number to such lot; (2) shall cause a marker to be installed thereon which indicates such number; (3) shall give a written notification to the purchaser of such lot, or his agent, which notification specifies the location and number of such lot; and (4) may charge the purchaser of such lot a reasonable fee for the cost of such marker and its installation.  (c) Such corporation shall maintain records concerning the location and numbering of such lots, which records shall be open to the public. Section 34 of chapter 158 shall apply to such corporation.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 2a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 2a - Cemetery Corporations; Disclosure; Penalty

Section 2A. A cemetery corporation organized under this chapter or created by special act or charter shall disclose to its clients whether an owner, director or trustee of the cemetery corporation owns 10 per cent or more of a business that sells products or services to the cemetery corporation of which he is owner, director or trustee. The information shall be available for review by the public during the business hours of the cemetery at the cemetery's place of business. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of $50 for each day of the violation.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 3 - Cemetery Corporations; Records of Conveyances of Burial Lots

Section 3. Every cemetery corporation created by special charter or organized under general laws shall regularly keep books in which it shall enter all conveyances of burial lots within said cemetery and all instruments of contract relating to conveyances of such lots. Such records, and similar records made by such corporation prior to June second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, shall have the same effect as if made in the registry of deeds for the county or district where such cemetery is situated, and no other record shall be necessary.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 3a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 3a - Cemetery Corporations; Ownership of Unclaimed Graves; Reuse of Occupied Graves

Section 3A. No cemetery corporation created by special charter or organized under the provisions of section one shall take over ownership of an unoccupied grave unless a minimum of seventy-five years has elapsed after issuance of a license for the grave by the cemetery corporation or its predecessor in interest; and the cemetery corporation cannot locate the license holder or the holder's successor in interest after making a diligent search. If ownership of the license is ascertained after such a taking occurs, then the cemetery corporation shall pay the fair value of the license at the time of its taking to the owner.  No cemetery corporation created by special charter or organized under the provisions of section one shall reuse an occupied grave except: upon the request and with the consent of a relative or descendant of the decedent occupying the grave, providing no other descendant objects; to provide for the burial of a relative or descendant of the decedent occupying the grave; and if the remains of the decedent occupying the grave will remain in the grave. The municipality where the cemetery is located shall determine, by by-law or ordinance, the method to be used in reusing such occupied graves and may reasonably limit the circumstances under which such reuse can occur.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 4 - Cemetery Corporations; Certified Copies of Recorded Deeds and Instruments; Evidence

Section 4. The secretary or clerk of such corporation may give certified copies of all deeds and instruments so recorded, which may be used in evidence in the same manner as copies certified by the register of deeds.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 5 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 5 - Cemetery Corporations; Trust Funds

Section 5. Such corporation may hold funds in trust and apply the income thereof to the improvement or embellishment of the cemetery or to the care, preservation or embellishment of any lot or its appurtenances.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 5a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 5a - Cemetery Corporations; Burials; Designated Funeral Director

Section 5a. No such cemetery corporation shall deny the right to perform burials and the functions incidental thereto to the funeral director designated by the representative of the deceased, provided the deceased is otherwise entitled to interment in said cemetery.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 5b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 5b - Cemetery Corporations; Notification of Certain Options for Burial Services; Penalty

Section 5b. Each such cemetery corporation shall notify, or cause the funeral director designated by the representatives of the deceased to notify, the family of the deceased or the person making funeral arrangements for the deceased of the choice of three options for burial services; services at the gravesite without observation of the lowering of the casket into said gravesite, services at the gravesite with observation of the lowering of the casket into said gravesite, or where available, services within a chapel at the cemetery.  A cemetery corporation which violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 5c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 5c - Cemetery Corporations; Fiduciary Duty Owed to Contributors to Trust Fund

Section 5c. The corporation and its officers shall owe a fiduciary duty to a contributor to the trust fund, his heirs and legal representatives to hold and expend the funds strictly consistent with the purposes of section 5. A contributor to the trust fund, his heirs and legal representatives who were required to invest in the trust fund as a condition of purchasing a right of burial shall have all rights and protections of chapter 110A.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 6 - Cemetery Corporations; Cremation

Section 6. Such corporation may cremate bodies of the dead, and may provide necessary buildings and appliances therefor and for the disposition of the ashes of the dead on any land within its cemetery which the department of environmental protection determines is suitable therefor, subject to the provisions of section forty-three D, and such buildings and appliances shall be a part of the cemetery and be dedicated to the burial of the dead, and shall be held by said corporations subject to the duties, and with the privileges and immunities, which they now have by law.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 7 - Formation and Organization of Crematory Corporations

Section 7. Five or more persons may form a corporation, not for profit, for the purpose of providing the necessary appliances for the disposal by cremation of the bodies of the dead. Such a corporation shall be formed in the manner prescribed in and subject to section nine of chapter one hundred and fifty-five and sections six and eight to twelve, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and fifty-six, except as follows:   The capital stock, if any, shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars.   The agreement of association of such a corporation having no capital stock may omit the statement of the amount of the capital stock and the par value and number of its shares. The par value of its shares, if any, may be ten or fifty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 114 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 114 - Cemeteries and Burials|Section 8 - Crematory Corporations; Acquisition and Holding of Land in Fee

Section 8. Such corporation may acquire and hold in fee, to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, land necessary and appropriate for its purposes and situated in such place as the department of public health determines to be suitable, subject to the provisions of section forty-three D.