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18 V.S.A. § 5250t
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 110 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|§ 5250t. Donor registry

§ 5250t. Donor registry|(a) The Department of Health shall ensure that a registry is developed and maintained to identify people who have authorized a document of gift.(b) The Department of Motor Vehicles is authorized to enter into a data use agreement with an organ procurement organization for the purpose of transmitting information identifying persons who have authorized a document of gift at the time of issuance of a driver's license or driver's license renewal and incorporating such information into a donor registry maintained by the organ procurement organization. Such information shall constitute the Vermont Donor Registry. The Department of Motor Vehicles may secure grants from public and private sources, and receive and disburse funds that are assigned, donated, or bequeathed to the Department to cover the costs of receiving and transmitting the document of gift data. As funds become available, documents of gift may be accepted and data forwarded from persons 16 and 17 years of age and persons being issued nondriver identification cards.(c) The Vermont Donor Registry shall:  (1) contain a database that includes donors who have authorized an anatomical gift and provide a mechanism for an anatomical gift to be removed from the database; (2) be accessible to other organ procurement organizations to allow them to obtain relevant information from the donor registry to determine, at or near the time of the death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has authorized an anatomical gift; and (3) be accessible 24 hours per day, seven days per week for the purposes specified in subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection.   (d) No later than January 15, 2011, the Department of Motor Vehicles shall submit a report on its implementation of a data use agreement with a qualified organ procurement organization to the House and Senate Committees on Government Operations, the House Committee on Human Services, and the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare.(e) Personally identifiable information contained in a donor registry about a donor or prospective donor may not be used or disclosed by any organ procurement organization except with the express consent of the donor, prospective donor, or other person making the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at or near the time of the death of the donor or prospective donor, whether such donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift.(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established under this section, provided that any such registry shall comply with the provisions of subsections (c) and (e) of this section. (Added 2009, No. 119 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
18 V.S.A. § 5250v
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 110 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|§ 5250v. Cooperation between Medical Examiner and procurement organization

§ 5250v. Cooperation between Medical Examiner and procurement organization|The Chief Medical Examiner shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education, except when the Chief Medical Examiner believes such cooperation would be inconsistent with death investigation procedures or would negatively affect a death investigation. (Added 2009, No. 119 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
18 V.S.A. § 5250x
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 110 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|§ 5250x. Honoring donor intent

§ 5250x. Honoring donor intent|A person's decision to make a donation of that person's own organ or tissue after death shall be honored. In the absence of a revocation or amendment of an anatomical gift, health care providers and procurement organizations shall act in accordance with the donor's decision and may take appropriate actions to effect the anatomical gift. (Added 2009, No. 119 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
18 V.S.A. § 5250y
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 110 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|§ 5250y. Uniformity of application and construction

§ 5250y. Uniformity 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. (Added 2009, No. 119 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
18 V.S.A. § 5250z
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 110 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|§ 5250z. Relation to electronic signatures in Global and National Commerce Act

§ 5250z. Relation to electronic signatures in Global and National Commerce Act|This act modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede Section 101(a) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7001, or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that act, 15 U.S.C. Section 7003(b). (Added 2009, No. 119 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
18 V.S.A. § 5281
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 113 - Patient Choice at End of Life|§ 5281. Definitions

§ 5281. Definitions|As used in this chapter:  (1) "Bona fide physician-patient relationship" means a treating or consulting relationship in the course of which a physician has completed a full assessment of the patient's medical history and current medical condition, including a personal physical examination. (2) "Capable" means that a patient has the ability to make and communicate health care decisions to a physician, including communication through persons familiar with the patient's manner of communicating if those persons are available. (3) "Health care facility" shall have the same meaning as in section 9432 of this title. (4) "Health care provider" means a person, partnership, corporation, facility, or institution, licensed or certified or authorized by law to administer health care or dispense medication in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession. (5) "Impaired judgment" means that a person does not sufficiently understand or appreciate the relevant facts necessary to make an informed decision. (6) "Interested person" means:  (A) the patient's physician; (B) a person who knows that he or she is a relative of the patient by blood, civil marriage, civil union, or adoption; (C) a person who knows that he or she would be entitled upon the patient's death to any portion of the estate or assets of the patient under any will or trust, by operation of law, or by contract; or (D) an owner, operator, or employee of a health care facility, nursing home, or residential care facility where the patient is receiving medical treatment or is a resident.  (7) "Palliative care" shall have the same definition as in section 2 of this title. (8) "Patient" means a person who is 18 years of age or older, a resident of Vermont, and under the care of a physician. (9) "Physician" means an individual licensed to practice medicine under 26 V.S.A. chapter 23 or 33. (10) "Terminal condition" means an incurable and irreversible disease which would, within reasonable medical judgment, result in death within six months. (Added 2013, No. 39, § 1, eff. May 20, 2013.)
18 V.S.A. § 5282
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 113 - Patient Choice at End of Life|§ 5282. Right to information

§ 5282. Right to information|The rights of a patient under section 1871 of this title to be informed of all available options related to terminal care and under 12 V.S.A. § 1909(d) to receive answers to any specific question about the foreseeable risks and benefits of medication without the physician's withholding any requested information exist regardless of the purpose of the inquiry or the nature of the information. A physician who engages in discussions with a patient related to such risks and benefits in the circumstances described in this chapter shall not be construed to be assisting in or contributing to a patient's independent decision to self-administer a lethal dose of medication, and such discussions shall not be used to establish civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action. (Added 2013, No. 39, § 1, eff. May 20, 2013.)
18 V.S.A. § 5284
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 113 - Patient Choice at End of Life|§ 5284. No duty to aid

§ 5284. No duty to aid|A patient with a terminal condition who self-administers a lethal dose of medication shall not be considered to be a person exposed to grave physical harm under 12 V.S.A. § 519, and no person shall be subject to civil or criminal liability solely for being present when a patient with a terminal condition self-administers a lethal dose of medication or for not acting to prevent the patient from self-administering a lethal dose of medication. (Added 2013, No. 39, § 1, eff. May 20, 2013.)
18 V.S.A. § 5285
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 113 - Patient Choice at End of Life|§ 5285. Limitations on actions

§ 5285. Limitations on actions|(a) A physician, nurse, pharmacist, or other person shall not be under any duty, by law or contract, to participate in the provision of a lethal dose of medication to a patient.(b) A health care facility or health care provider shall not subject a physician, nurse, pharmacist, or other person to discipline, suspension, loss of license, loss of privileges, or other penalty for actions taken in good faith reliance on the provisions of this chapter or refusals to act under this chapter.(c) Except as otherwise provided in this section and sections 5283, 5289, and 5290 of this title, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit liability for civil damages resulting from negligent conduct or intentional misconduct by any person. (Added 2013, No. 39, § 1, eff. May 20, 2013.)
18 V.S.A. § 5286
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 113 - Patient Choice at End of Life|§ 5286. Health care facility exception

§ 5286. Health care facility exception|A health care facility may prohibit a physician from writing a prescription for a dose of medication intended to be lethal for a patient who is a resident in its facility and intends to use the medication on the facility's premises, provided the facility has notified the physician in writing of its policy with regard to the prescriptions. Notwithstanding subsection 5285(b) of this title, any physician who violates a policy established by a health care facility under this section may be subject to sanctions otherwise allowable under law or contract. (Added 2013, No. 39, § 1, eff. May 20, 2013.)
18 V.S.A. § 5287
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 113 - Patient Choice at End of Life|§ 5287. Insurance policies; prohibitions

§ 5287. Insurance policies; prohibitions|(a) A person and his or her beneficiaries shall not be denied benefits under a life insurance policy, as defined in 8 V.S.A. § 3301, for actions taken in accordance with this chapter.(b) The sale, procurement, or issue of any medical malpractice insurance policy or the rate charged for the policy shall not be conditioned upon or affected by whether the physician is willing or unwilling to participate in the provisions of this chapter. (Added 2013, No. 39, § 1, eff. May 20, 2013.)
18 V.S.A. § 5288
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 113 - Patient Choice at End of Life|§ 5288. No effect on palliative sedation

§ 5288. No effect on palliative sedation|This chapter shall not limit or otherwise affect the provision, administration, or receipt of palliative sedation consistent with accepted medical standards. (Added 2013, No. 39, § 1, eff. May 20, 2013.)
18 V.S.A. § 5291
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 113 - Patient Choice at End of Life|§ 5291. Safe disposal of unused medications

§ 5291. Safe disposal of unused medications|The Department of Health shall adopt rules providing for the safe disposal of unused medications prescribed under this chapter. (Added 2013, No. 39, § 1, eff. May 20, 2013.)
18 V.S.A. § 5292
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 113 - Patient Choice at End of Life|§ 5292. Statutory construction

§ 5292. Statutory construction|Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize a physician or any other person to end a patient's life by lethal injection, mercy killing, or active euthanasia. Action taken in accordance with this chapter shall not be construed for any purpose to constitute suicide, assisted suicide, mercy killing, or homicide under the law. This section shall not be construed to conflict with section 1553 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub.L. No. 111-148, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Pub.L. No. 111-152. (Added 2013, No. 39, § 1, eff. May 20, 2013.)
18 V.S.A. § 5293
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 113 - Patient Choice at End of Life|§ 5293. Reporting requirements

§ 5293. Reporting requirements|(a) The Department of Health shall adopt rules pursuant to 3 V.S.A. chapter 25 to facilitate the collection of information regarding compliance with this chapter, including identifying patients who filled prescriptions written pursuant to this chapter. Except as otherwise required by law, information regarding compliance shall be confidential and shall be exempt from public inspection and copying under the Public Records Act.(b) Beginning in 2018, the Department of Health shall generate and make available to the public a biennial statistical report of the information collected pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, as long as releasing the information complies with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-191. (Added 2015, No. 27, § 2, eff. May 20, 2015.)
18 V.S.A. § 5300
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 121 - Cemeteries|§ 5300. Statutory purposes

§ 5300. Statutory purposes|The statutory purpose of the exemption for cemeteries in sections 5317 and 5376 of this title is to lower the cost of establishing and maintaining cemeteries. (Added 2013, No. 200 (Adj. Sess.), § 11.)
18 V.S.A. § 5301
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 121 - Cemeteries|§ 5301. Application of chapter

§ 5301. Application of chapter|This chapter shall be applicable to all agencies now engaged in,  or which shall hereafter engage in any business of a cemetery within this State, and to all property used or intended to be used for the permanent disposition of the human dead.
18 V.S.A. § 5302
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 121 - Cemeteries|§ 5302. Definitions

§ 5302. Definitions|As used in this chapter and unless otherwise required by the context:  (1) "Agencies" means town cemeteries, religious or ecclesiastical society cemeteries, cemetery associations, and any person, firm, corporation, or unincorporated association engaged in the business of a cemetery. (2) "Cemetery" means any plot of ground used or intended to be used for the burial or disposition permanently of the remains of the human dead in a grave, a mausoleum, a columbarium, a vault, or other receptacle. (3) "Cemetery association" means any corporation now or hereafter organized which is or shall be authorized by its articles to conduct the business of a cemetery. (4) "Columbarium" means a structure or room or other space in a building or structure of durable and lasting fireproof construction, containing niches, used or intended to be used, to contain cremated human remains. (5) "Community mausoleum" means a structure or building of durable and lasting construction used or intended to be used for the permanent disposition of the remains of deceased persons in crypts or spaces, provided such crypts or spaces are available to or may be obtained by individuals or the public for a price in money or its equivalent. (6) "Cremated remains" means remains of a deceased person after incineration in a crematory. (7) "Cremation" means the reducing of the remains of deceased persons, by the use of retorts, to cremated remains and the disposal thereof in a columbarium, niche, mausoleum, grave, or in any other manner not contrary to law. (8) "Crematory" means a building or structure containing one or more retorts, used or intended to be used, for the reducing of the bodies of deceased persons to cremated remains. (9) "Crypt" means the chamber in a mausoleum of sufficient size to contain the remains of deceased persons. (10) "Ecological land management practices" means utilization of land stewardship decision-making processes that account for the best available understanding of ecosystem functions and biological diversity. (11) "Natural burial ground" means a cemetery maintained using ecological land management practices and without the use of vaults for the burial of unembalmed human remains or human remains embalmed using nontoxic embalming fluids and that rest in either no burial container or in a nontoxic, nonhazardous, plant-derived burial container or shroud. (12) "Niche" means a recess in a columbarium used, or intended to be used for the permanent disposition of the cremated remains of one or more deceased persons. (13) "Temporary receiving vault" means a vault or crypt in a structure of durable and lasting construction, used or intended to be used, for the temporary deposit of the remains of a deceased person for a period of time not exceeding one year. (Amended 2015, No. 24, § 1; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 94.)
18 V.S.A. § 5303
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 121 - Cemeteries|§ 5303. Policy declared

§ 5303. Policy declared|The object, purposes, and activities of a cemetery shall be restricted to those acts only that are necessary to enable it to accomplish the purposes for which it is created. It shall not be conducted for the purpose of private gain either directly or indirectly to any of the members of the agencies engaged in such business. Lawfully organized cemeteries may be conducted and operated by those agencies now engaged in their conduct and operation, by churches, by religious and ecclesiastical societies, by cemetery associations incorporated as hereinafter provided, and by no others. However, this chapter is not intended to apply to any agency organized, existing, and operating the business of a cemetery prior to June 1, 1933, under any existing law, nor to affect any vested rights acquired thereunder. Insofar, however, as the provisions of this chapter do not violate any vested rights, so acquired, it shall apply to all such agencies.
18 V.S.A. § 5304
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 121 - Cemeteries|§ 5304. Limitation of powers

§ 5304. Limitation of powers|The business of cemeteries shall not include among its corporate powers, either by express grant or as an incident thereto, the right to engage in any business enterprise or occupation such as is usually pursued by private individuals. Nevertheless, this provision shall not exclude the right of cemeteries to sell corner posts and other implements to define the boundaries of lots or other subdivisions of such cemeteries, and articles incident to the care and maintenance of lots and burial spaces, and the right of cemeteries to furnish or sell materials necessary for a complete cemetery burial service.
18 V.S.A. § 5305
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 121 - Cemeteries|§ 5305. Right to make rules and regulations

§ 5305. Right to make rules and regulations|The right of an agency engaged in the business of a cemetery, community mausoleum, or columbarium to make rules and regulations for the use, care, management, and protection thereof is hereby affirmed, and such agencies may by rule or regulation determine who may be buried or deposited therein.
18 V.S.A. § 5306
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 121 - Cemeteries|§ 5306. Perpetual care funds

§ 5306. Perpetual care funds|An agency engaged in the cemetery business shall have the right to acquire by gift, devise, or otherwise, land and property of every name and nature and to set aside surplus funds, to be held in trust as a perpetual care fund, the income thereof to be used according to the directions of the trust, where such directions are given, and where no specific directions are given, or, where given, and the purpose is incapable of performance, or there is a surplus of income after the directions of the trust have been fully complied with and performed, to use the same for the purpose of building, repairing, maintaining, adorning, and beautifying buildings or parts thereof, fences, graves, vaults, mausoleums, monuments, walks, cemetery lots, grounds, drives, or avenues, as the interests of the lot owners and cemetery shall appear. The duty upon all agencies organized to establish a perpetual care fund according to the terms hereinafter set forth is hereby imposed.
18 V.S.A. § 5307
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 121 - Cemeteries|§ 5307. Rule against perpetuities

§ 5307. Rule against perpetuities|A trust having one or more purposes provided under this chapter shall not be declared invalid by reason of indefiniteness as to the termination thereof, nor by the rule against perpetuities.
18 V.S.A. § 5308
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 121 - Cemeteries|§ 5308. Custodian of funds; bond

§ 5308. Custodian of funds; bond|When such funds are not deposited with a bank chartered by the State or a national bank, the custodian or depositary thereof, unless otherwise directed by the terms of the trust or other provisions of this chapter, shall be the treasurer of the agency owning, operating, or controlling the cemetery in which lots or burial spaces are sold, or in which mausoleums or columbariums are located, who shall furnish and file with such agency, at its expense, a good and sufficient bond or bonds with surety or sureties approved by the Probate Division of the Superior Court, indemnifying and securing such agency against loss occasioned by the failure of the treasurer to properly protect, preserve, and administer such funds under his or her control. Such funds shall be invested and the income therefrom expended upon the written orders of the directors or trustees of such agency. (Amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238a, eff. Feb. 1, 2011.)
18 V.S.A. § 5309
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 121 - Cemeteries|§ 5309. Investment of funds

§ 5309. Investment of funds|The principal sum of such funds shall be invested in bonds of the United States or the State of Vermont, or in the bonds or in notes issued in anticipation of taxes and authorized by vote of any town, village, or city in this State, or loaned upon first mortgage on real estate in this State a sum not in excess of 60 percent of the value of such real estate, or upon collateral of any of the above securities of equal value with the loan, or in shares of a savings and loan association of this State or share accounts of a federal savings and loan association with its principal office in this State and to the extent to which the withdrawal or repurchase value of such shares or accounts may be insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, or stock in a federal bank, a safe deposit company, or a national bank or state bank or trust company organized and doing business in the United States. Up to 35 percent of the association's assets may be invested in common or preferred stocks of corporations organized and existing under the laws of any state of the United States of America, or may be invested in the manner required for the investment of trust funds, unless otherwise authorized by the donor. No assets of the association may be loaned to a member, officer, trustee, or director of any such cemetery agency. (Amended 1979, No. 144 (Adj. Sess.).)