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2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 22-19-5 - Use of Approved Identification System.

Section 22-19-5
Use of approved identification system.
(a) Each funeral establishment taking possession of a dead human body shall maintain an identification system approved by the Alabama Board of Funeral Service. The identification system may include any dignified method, including, but not limited to, an arm band or a wrist band, that will ensure the ability to identify the body from the time of taking possession of the body until the body is transferred to another entity or until final disposition.
(b) A funeral establishment that maintains the required identification system approved by the Alabama Board of Funeral Service shall not be liable for misidentification that occurred prior to taking possession of the body or misidentification that occurs after the body has been transferred from the funeral establishment to another entity.
(Act 2006-608, p. 1672, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 2 - Distribution of Unclaimed Bodies for Scientific Study. › Section 22-19-20 - State of Alabama Anatomical Board - Composition; Secretary.

Section 22-19-20
State of Alabama Anatomical Board - Composition; secretary.
The State Health Officer, the Dean of the School of Medicine and the head of the Department of Anatomy of the University of Alabama in Birmingham and the deans and heads of the departments of anatomy of other medical schools which may hereafter become incorporated under the laws of this state shall be constituted as a board for the distribution and delivery of dead bodies, known as "State of Alabama Anatomical Board." The professor of anatomy in the medical school of the University of Alabama, in Birmingham, shall serve as secretary.
(Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §1288; Code 1940, T. 22, §174; Acts 1980, No. 80-140, p. 210.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 2 - Distribution of Unclaimed Bodies for Scientific Study. › Section 22-19-21 - State of Alabama Anatomical Board - Powers; Records.

Section 22-19-21
State of Alabama Anatomical Board - Powers; records.
The said board shall have full power to establish rules and regulations for its government and to appoint and remove its officers and shall keep full and complete minutes of its transactions. Records shall also be kept under its direction of all bodies received and distributed by said board and of the persons or institutions to whom the same may be distributed, which minutes and records shall be open, at all times, to the inspection of each member of said board and of any district attorney of any district court in this state.
(Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §1289; Code 1940, T. 22, §175.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 2 - Distribution of Unclaimed Bodies for Scientific Study. › Section 22-19-22 - Notice of Possession of Bodies Required to Be Buried at Public Expense; Delivery to Board; Authorization to Solicit Dead Bodies From Counties.

Section 22-19-22
Notice of possession of bodies required to be buried at public expense; delivery to board; authorization to solicit dead bodies from counties.
All public officers of this state and their assistants and all officers and their deputies of every county, city, town or other municipality and of every prison, penitentiary, morgue and public hospital in this state having charge or control over any dead human body or bodies, not dead from any contagious or infectious disease and required to be buried at public expense, are required to notify the said Anatomical Board, or such person or persons as may from time to time be designated in writing by said board or its duly authorized officers, whenever any such body or bodies come into their possession, charge or control and shall, without fee or reward, deliver such body or bodies and suffer said board and its duly authorized agents, who may comply with the provisions of this article, to take and remove all such bodies to be used only within this state solely for the advancement of medical science. The State of Alabama Anatomical Board is expressly authorized to solicit dead bodies, for the purposes of scientific studies, from appropriate authorities within the jurisdiction of each county governing body.
(Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §1290; Code 1940, T. 22, §176; Acts 1980, No. 80-140, p. 210.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 2 - Distribution of Unclaimed Bodies for Scientific Study. › Section 22-19-23 - When Bodies Not to Be Delivered to Board.

Section 22-19-23
When bodies not to be delivered to board.
No notice shall be given, nor shall any such body or bodies be delivered, if any person shall satisfy the authorities in charge of said body or bodies that he or she is of any degree of kin or is related by marriage to, or socially or otherwise connected with and interested in, the deceased and shall claim the said body or bodies for burial. In that event, it or they shall be at once surrendered to such person for interment or shall be buried at public expense at the request of such claimant, if a relative by blood or a connection by marriage, provided he or she is financially unable to supply such body or bodies with burial. Such notice shall not be given, or such body be delivered, if the deceased person was a traveler who died suddenly, in which case the dead body shall be buried.
(Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §1291; Code 1940, T. 22, §177.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 2 - Distribution of Unclaimed Bodies for Scientific Study. › Section 22-19-24 - Holding Period; Notice of Death.

Section 22-19-24
Holding period; notice of death.
Such body or bodies shall, in each and every instance, be held and kept by the person or persons having charge or control of it or them at least 24 hours after death before being delivered to said board, or its agent or agents, during which period notice of the death of such person or persons shall be posted at the courthouse door of the county in which said body or bodies are held.
(Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §1292; Code 1940, T. 22, §178.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 2 - Distribution of Unclaimed Bodies for Scientific Study. › Section 22-19-25 - Distribution of Bodies to Schools.

Section 22-19-25
Distribution of bodies to schools.
The said board, or its duly authorized agent, may take and receive such bodies so delivered as provided in this article and shall, upon receiving them, distribute them among schools, duly authorized by said board, for lectures and demonstrations by said schools, the number assigned to each to be based upon the number of bona fide students in each dissecting or operative surgery class, which number of students shall be reported by the said schools to the board at such times as it may direct.
(Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §1293; Code 1940, T. 22, §179.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 2 - Distribution of Unclaimed Bodies for Scientific Study. › Section 22-19-26 - Preservation of Bodies for 60 Days by Schools Pending Claims Therefor.

Section 22-19-26
Preservation of bodies for 60 days by schools pending claims therefor.
Said schools, upon receiving them, and before any use is made of them, and without unnecessary mutilation or dissection shall cause them to be properly embalmed and carefully preserved and kept for a period of 60 days from the day of their reception and shall deliver them properly prepared for burial to any person mentioned and described in Section 22-19-23, who shall claim such body for burial, within or before the expiration of said period of 60 days, and satisfy the officers of said school that he or she is such a person as is, under said Section 22-19-23, entitled to said body. If, at the expiration of said 60 days, said body or bodies have not been claimed for burial in the manner and by the person or persons described in this article, said bodies shall then be used for the purposes specified in this article by said schools.
(Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §1294; Code 1940, T. 22, §180.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 2 - Distribution of Unclaimed Bodies for Scientific Study. › Section 22-19-27 - Disposal of Bodies After Use by Schools.

Section 22-19-27
Disposal of bodies after use by schools.
When said bodies have been so used and are no longer needed or serviceable for objects mentioned in this article, they shall be decently interred, cremated or otherwise properly disposed of by the said schools.
(Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §1295; Code 1940, T. 22, §181.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 2 - Distribution of Unclaimed Bodies for Scientific Study. › Section 22-19-28 - Carriers for Conveyance of Bodies; Receipts for Bodies.

Section 22-19-28
Carriers for conveyance of bodies; receipts for bodies.
The said board may employ a carrier or carriers for the conveyance of said bodies, which shall be enclosed in a suitable encasement and carefully deposited free from public observation. Said carrier or carriers shall obtain receipts by name or, if the person be unknown, by a description for such body delivered by him and shall deposit said receipts with the secretary of said board, who shall record and preserve the same.
(Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §1296; Code 1940, T. 22, §182.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 2 - Distribution of Unclaimed Bodies for Scientific Study. › Section 22-19-29 - Payment of Expenses for Delivery or Distribution of Bodies.

Section 22-19-29
Payment of expenses for delivery or distribution of bodies.
Neither the state, nor any county or municipality nor any officer, agent or servant thereof shall be at any expense by reason of delivery or distribution of any such body or bodies, but all expenses thereof shall be paid by those receiving the body or bodies in such a manner as may be specified or fixed by said board.
(Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §1297; Code 1940, T. 22, §183.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 2 - Distribution of Unclaimed Bodies for Scientific Study. › Section 22-19-30 - Penalty for Violation of Article.

Section 22-19-30
Penalty for violation of article.
Any person having duties enjoined upon him by the provisions of this article or other health laws of this state relating to the distribution of unclaimed dead bodies for scientific study who shall neglect, refuse or omit to perform the same as therein required must, on conviction, be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00 and may be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months.
(Acts 1923, No. 360, p. 381; Code 1923, §4376; Code 1940, T. 22, §184.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3 - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-40 - Short Title.

Section 22-19-40
Short title.
(a) This article may be cited as the Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act of 1969.
(b) This article shall only apply to gifts made prior to January 1, 2004.
(Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 164, p. 230, §9; Act 2003-347, p. 887, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3 - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-41 - Definitions.

Section 22-19-41
Definitions.
For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) BANK or STORAGE FACILITY. A facility licensed, accredited or approved under the laws of any state for the storage of human bodies, or parts thereof.
(2) DECEDENT. A deceased individual and includes a stillborn infant or fetus.
(3) DONOR. An individual who makes a gift of all, or part of, his body.
(4) HOSPITAL. A hospital licensed under the laws of the State of Alabama, or any subdivision thereof, or under the laws and regulations of the United States government, or any agency thereof.
(5) PART. Organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood or other fluids and any other portions of a human body.
(6) PERSON. An individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate trust, partnership or association or any other legal entity.
(7) PHYSICIAN or SURGEON. A physician or surgeon licensed or authorized to practice under the laws of any state.
(Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 164, p. 230, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3 - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-42 - Who May Donate All, or Part Of, Body; Rights of Donees.

Section 22-19-42
Who may donate all, or part of, body; rights of donees.
(a) Any individual of sound mind and 18 years of age or older may give all, or any part of, his body for any purposes specified in Section 22-19-43, the gift to take effect upon death.
(b) Any of the following persons, in order of priority stated, when persons in prior classes are not available at the time of death, and in the absence of actual notice of contrary indications by the decedent or actual notice of opposition by a member of the same or a prior class, may give all, or any part of, the decedent's body for any purpose specified in Section 22-19-43:
(1) The spouse;
(2) An adult son or daughter;
(3) Either parent;
(4) An adult brother or sister;
(5) A guardian of the person of the deceased at the time of his death; or
(6) Any other person authorized or under obligation to dispose of the body.
(c) If the donee has actual notice of contrary indications by the decedent or that a gift by a member of a class is opposed by a member of the same or of a prior class, the donee shall not accept the gift. The persons authorized by subsection (b) of this section may make the gift after or immediately before death.
(d) A gift of all, or part of, a body authorizes any examination necessary to assure medical acceptability of the gift for the purposes intended.
(e) The rights of the donee created by the gift are paramount to the rights of others, except as provided by subsection (d) of Section 22-19-47.
(Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 164, p. 230, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3 - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-43 - Institutions or Persons Who May Become Donees; Purposes for Which Anatomical Gifts May Be Made.

Section 22-19-43
Institutions or persons who may become donees; purposes for which anatomical gifts may be made.
The following persons may become donees of gifts of bodies, or parts thereof, for the purposes stated:
(1) Any hospital, surgeon or physician for medical or dental education, research, advancement or medical or dental science, therapy or transplantation;
(2) Any accredited medical or dental school or college or university for education, research, advancement of medical or dental science or therapy;
(3) Any bank or storage facility for medical or dental education, research, advancement of medical or dental science, therapy or transplantation; or
(4) Any specified individual for therapy or transplantation needed by him.
(Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 164, p. 230, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3 - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-44 - Modes of Executing Gift.

Section 22-19-44
Modes of executing gift.
(a) A gift of all or part of the body under subsection (a) of Section 22-19-42 may be made by will. The gift becomes effective upon the death of the testator without waiting for probate. If the will is not probated, or if it is declared invalid for testamentary purposes, the gift, to the extent that it has been acted upon in good faith, is nevertheless valid and effective.
(b) A gift of all or part of the body under subsection (a) of Section 22-19-42 may also be made by document other than a will. The gift becomes effective upon the death of the donor. The document, which may be a card designed to be carried on the person, must be signed by the donor in the presence of two witnesses, who must sign the document in his presence. If the donor cannot sign, the document may be signed for him at his direction and in his presence and in the presence of two witnesses, who must sign the document in his presence. Delivery of the document of gift during the donor's lifetime is not necessary to make the gift valid.
(c) The gift may be made either to a specified donee or without naming a donee. If the donee is not named, the attending physician may accept as donee upon or following death. If the gift is made to a specified donee who is not available at the time and place of death, the attending physician may, in the absence of any expressed indication that the donor desired otherwise, accept the gift as donee. The physician who becomes a donee under this subsection shall not participate in the procedures for removing or transplanting a part.
(d) The donor may designate in his will, card or other document of gift the surgeon or physician to carry out the appropriate procedures. In the absence of a designation, or if the designee is not available, the donee or other person authorized to accept the gift may comply or authorize any surgeon or physician for the purpose.
(e) Any gift by a person designated in subsection (b) of Section 22-19-42 shall be made by a document signed by him or made by his telegraphic, recorded telephonic or other recorded message.
(Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 164, p. 230, §4.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3 - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-45 - Delivery or Deposit of Gift Document.

Section 22-19-45
Delivery or deposit of gift document.
If the gift is made by the donor to a specified donee, the will, card or other document, or an executed copy thereof, may be delivered to the donee to expedite the appropriate procedures immediately after death. Delivery is not necessary to the validity of the gift. The will, card or other document, or an executed copy thereof, may be deposited in any hospital, bank or storage facility or registry office that accepts it for safekeeping or for facilitation of procedures after death. On request of any interested party upon, or after, the donor's death, the person in possession shall produce the document for examination.
(Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 164, p. 230, §5.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3 - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-46 - Amendment or Revocation of Gift.

Section 22-19-46
Amendment or revocation of gift.
(a) If the will, card or other document, or executed copy thereof, has been delivered to a specified donee, the donor may amend or revoke the gift by:
(1) The execution and delivery to the donee of a signed statement;
(2) An oral statement made in the presence of two persons and communicated to the donee;
(3) A statement during a terminal illness or injury addressed to an attending physician and communicated to the donee; or
(4) A signed card or document found on his person or in his effects.
(b) Any document of gift which has not been delivered to the donee may be revoked by the donor in the manner set out in subsection (a) of this section or by destruction, cancellation or mutilation of the document and all executed copies thereof.
(c) Any gift made by a will may also be amended or revoked in the manner provided for amendment or revocation of wills or as provided in subsection (a) of this section.
(Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 164, p. 230, §6.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3 - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Upon Death.

Section 22-19-47
Powers, duties and liabilities upon death.
(a) The donee may accept or reject the gift. If the donee accepts a gift of the entire body, he may, subject to the terms of the gift, authorize embalming and the use of the body in funeral services. If the gift is of a part of the body, the donee, upon the death of the donor and prior to embalming, shall cause the part to be removed without unnecessary mutilation. After removal of the part, custody or the remainder of the body vests in the surviving spouse, next of kin or other persons under obligations to dispose of the body.
(b) The time of death shall be determined by a physician who attends the donor at his death or, if none, the physician who certifies the death. The physician shall not participate in the procedures for removing or transplanting a part.
(c) A person who acts in good faith in accord with the terms of this article or with the anatomical gift laws of another state or a foreign country is not liable for damages in any civil action or subject to prosecution in any criminal proceeding for his act.
(d) The provisions of this article are subject to the laws of this state prescribing powers and duties with respect to autopsies.
(Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 164, p. 230, §7.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-50 - Short Title.

Section 22-19-50
Short title.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-51 - Definitions.

Section 22-19-51
Definitions.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-52 - Making, Amending, Revoking, and Refusing to Make Anatomical Gifts by Individual.

Section 22-19-52
Making, amending, revoking, and refusing to make anatomical gifts by individual.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-53 - Making, Revoking, and Objecting to Anatomical Gifts by Others.

Section 22-19-53
Making, revoking, and objecting to anatomical gifts by others.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-54 - Authorization by Coroner; Medical Examiner; Local Public Health Official.

Section 22-19-54
Authorization by coroner; medical examiner; local public health official.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-55 - Routine Inquiry and Required Request; Search and Notification.

Section 22-19-55
Routine inquiry and required request; search and notification.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-56 - Persons Who May Become Donees; Purposes for Which Anatomical Gifts May Be Made.

Section 22-19-56
Persons who may become donees; purposes for which anatomical gifts may be made.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-57 - Delivery of Document of Gift.

Section 22-19-57
Delivery of document of gift.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-58 - Rights and Duties at Death.

Section 22-19-58
Rights and duties at death.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-59 - Coordination of Procurement and Use.

Section 22-19-59
Coordination of procurement and use.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-59.1 - Sale or Purchase of Parts Prohibited.

Section 22-19-59.1
Sale or purchase of parts prohibited.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-59.2 - Examination, Autopsy, Liability.

Section 22-19-59.2
Examination, autopsy, liability.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-59.3 - Administrative Rules.

Section 22-19-59.3
Administrative rules.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-59.4 - Legislative Recognition.

Section 22-19-59.4
Legislative recognition.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-59.5 - Transitional Provisions.

Section 22-19-59.5
Transitional provisions.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-59.6 - Uniformity of Application and Construction.

Section 22-19-59.6
Uniformity of application and construction.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 3A - Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act › Section 22-19-59.7 - Severability.

Section 22-19-59.7
Severability.
Repealed by Act 2008-453, p. 867, §2, effective November 1, 2008.
(Act 2003-347, p. 887, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 4 - Anatomical Gifts by Holders of Drivers' Licenses or Nondriver Identification Cards. › Division 1 - Anatomical Gifts by Sworn Affidavit. › Section 22-19-60 - Gift Made by Execution of Affidavit to Be Filed With Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency; Notice of Intent and Specific Gift to Be Noted on Driver's License or Nondriver Identification Card; When Gift Effective; Execution and Acknowledgment of Affidavit; Effect of Expiration, Revocation, Renewal, etc., of License or Card.

Section 22-19-60
Gift made by execution of affidavit to be filed with Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency; notice of intent and specific gift to be noted on driver's license or nondriver identification card; when gift effective; execution and acknowledgment of affidavit; effect of expiration, revocation, renewal, etc., of license or card.
(a) A gift of all or part of the body may be made by the holder of a valid Alabama Driver's License or nondriver identification card by the execution of a sworn affidavit to be filed with the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency.
(b) Notice of intent to make a gift shall be noted on the driver's license or nondriver identification card of the donor in a manner to be determined by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency and there shall also be noted thereon the specific gift of the donor in accordance with the following legend:
E - Eye
K - Kidney
H - Heart
Li - Liver
L - Lungs
A - All (everything)
(c) The gift shall become effective on the death of the donor without any formal requirements of delivery.
(d) The affidavit shall be signed by the holder of the driver's license or nondriver identification card in the presence of two witnesses who shall acknowledge the affidavit in the presence of the donor.
(e) The gift shall become invalidated upon the expiration, cancellation, revocation or suspension of a driver's license or nondriver identification card.
(f) The gift shall not become invalidated if the driver's license or nondriver identification card is properly renewed before the expiration date.
(g) The amendatory provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall commence on the date of renewal of the driver's license or nondriver identification card of the donor.
(Acts 1976, No. 753, p. 1037, §1; Acts 1982, No. 82-531, p. 881, §§1, 2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 4 - Anatomical Gifts by Holders of Drivers' Licenses or Nondriver Identification Cards. › Division 1 - Anatomical Gifts by Sworn Affidavit. › Section 22-19-61 - Immunity From Civil Liability of Officers and Employees of Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency.

Section 22-19-61
Immunity from civil liability of officers and employees of Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency.
The officers and employees of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall be immune from any civil liability for any acts or omissions in carrying out the provisions of this division.
(Acts 1976, No. 753, p. 1037, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 4 - Anatomical Gifts by Holders of Drivers' Licenses or Nondriver Identification Cards. › Division 2 - Anatomical Gifts by Application for Driver's License or Nondriver's Identification. › Section 22-19-70 - Inclusion of Question Regarding Organ Donation as Part of Driver's License or Nondriver Identification Card Application System; Notation of Affirmative Response on License or Card.

Section 22-19-70
Inclusion of question regarding organ donation as part of driver's license or nondriver identification card application system; notation of affirmative response on license or card.
No later than January 1, 1998, the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall redesign the driver's license and nondriver identification card application system to process requests for information regarding consent of the individual to organ or tissue donation. The following question in the following substantial form shall be asked of each applicant at point of issuance or renewal site:
"Do you wish to have the organ donor designation printed on your driver's license?"
Only an affirmative response of an individual shall be noted on the front of the driver's license or nondriver identification card which shall clearly indicate the intent of the individual to donate his or her organs and tissue by the printing of the words "ORGAN DONOR" on the front of the license or card.
(Acts 1996, No. 96-474, p. 587, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 4 - Anatomical Gifts by Holders of Drivers' Licenses or Nondriver Identification Cards. › Division 2 - Anatomical Gifts by Application for Driver's License or Nondriver's Identification. › Section 22-19-71 - Distribution of Informational Brochure; Promotion of Organ and Tissue Donation by Director of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency.

Section 22-19-71
Distribution of informational brochure; promotion of organ and tissue donation by Director of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency.
A brochure provided by the federally certified Alabama Organ Procurement Organization that is a member of and abides by the rules and regulations of United Network for Organ Sharing explaining the method of expressing an intent to make an anatomical gift shall be given to each applicant or licensee at the time of application for a new driver's license or nondriver identification card. The brochure shall advise the applicant or licensee that he or she is under no compulsion to designate organ donation status on his or her driver's license or nondriver identification card and that he or she may wish to consult with family, friends, or clergy before doing so. The Director of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency may undertake additional efforts, including education and awareness activities, to promote organ and tissue donation.
(Acts 1996, No. 96-474, p. 587, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 4 - Anatomical Gifts by Holders of Drivers' Licenses or Nondriver Identification Cards. › Division 2 - Anatomical Gifts by Application for Driver's License or Nondriver's Identification. › Section 22-19-71.1 - Promotion of Organ Donation Through the Application and Renewal Process for Driver's Licenses.

Section 22-19-71.1
Promotion of organ donation through the application and renewal process for driver's licenses.
(a) This section shall be named Angelynn and Courtney's Law.
(b) The Legislature finds:
(1) There is an acute need for organ donors in Alabama and throughout the nation.
(2) According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, more than 121,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant nationally, and a new person is added to the waiting list every 18 minutes.
(3) In Alabama, more than 3,300 people are waiting for an organ transplant.
(4) For an average of 19 people per day, the wait is too long and they die before a suitable organ is available.
(5) The Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act currently provides for notice of intent to make an organ donation upon the donor's death.
(6) A checkoff on a driver's license to be an organ donor has been a very successful way to encourage organ donation, but more can be done to provide greater education and public awareness regarding the decision to become an organ donor.
(c) Effective by January 1, 2017, the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall create and implement a program promoting organ donation through the application or renewal process for driver's licenses. The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall provide brochures and other information on organ donation at all driver's license offices as provided by the federally certified Alabama Organ Procurement Organization or as otherwise determined by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency.
(Act 2016-281, §§1-3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 4 - Anatomical Gifts by Holders of Drivers' Licenses or Nondriver Identification Cards. › Division 2 - Anatomical Gifts by Application for Driver's License or Nondriver's Identification. › Section 22-19-72 - Sticker or Decal Indicating Desire to Be Organ Donor.

Section 22-19-72
Sticker or decal indicating desire to be organ donor.
The Director of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall designate a space on each driver's license and nondriver identification card issued where the licensee may place a sticker or decal to indicate in appropriate language that the owner of the license or card desires to be an organ donor. The Director of Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall specify a uniform sticker or decal for the purposes of this section and the sticker or decal shall be contained in the informational brochure provided for in Section 22-19-71. An organ donor sticker or decal may also be provided by any person, hospital, school medical group, or association interested in assisting in implementing organ donation designation, but the organ donor sticker shall meet the specifications as the director may provide by rule or regulation.
(Acts 1996, No. 96-474, p. 587, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 4 - Anatomical Gifts by Holders of Drivers' Licenses or Nondriver Identification Cards. › Division 2 - Anatomical Gifts by Application for Driver's License or Nondriver's Identification. › Section 22-19-73 - Statistical and Demographic Information on Organ Donor Designations.

Section 22-19-73
Statistical and demographic information on organ donor designations.
The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall quarterly electronically transfer statistical and demographic information including, but not limited to, the name, most recent address, and date of birth, if available, of any person who has a current driver's license or nondriver identification card and who has designated that he or she wishes to be an organ donor to the federally certified Alabama Organ Procurement Organization that is a member of and abides by the rules and regulations of the United Network for Organ Sharing. This information shall be copied by the department quarterly and electronically transferred to eye and tissue procuring organizations in Alabama operating under the oversight of the United States Food and Drug Administration and accredited by the respective national accrediting body, including, but not limited to, the Eye Bank Association of America and the American Association of Tissue Banks. Each recipient entity shall be responsible for all costs associated with the implementation of the electronic transfer of donor information and all transfers of donor information pursuant to this section.
(Acts 1996, No. 96-474, p. 587, §4; Act 2003-273, p. 647, §1; Act 2006-536, p. 1231, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 4 - Anatomical Gifts by Holders of Drivers' Licenses or Nondriver Identification Cards. › Division 2 - Anatomical Gifts by Application for Driver's License or Nondriver's Identification. › Section 22-19-74 - Driver's License, Nondriver Identification Card, etc., to Accompany Individual to Hospital in Event of Accident or Trauma; Return of Driver's License or Nondriver Identification Card in Event of Death.

Section 22-19-74
Driver's license, nondriver identification card, etc., to accompany individual to hospital in event of accident or trauma; return of driver's license or nondriver identification card in event of death.
Police and emergency personnel responding to the scene of an accident or trauma shall take reasonable steps to insure that the driver's license or nondriver identification card, donor card, or other document of gift and medical alert bracelet, if any, of the individual involved in the accident or trauma accompanies the individual to the hospital or other health care facility. If the individual dies, the hospital or other health care facility shall, within five days or as soon as practicable, return the driver's license or nondriver identification card to the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency accompanied by a form prescribed by the department.
(Acts 1996, No. 96-474, p. 587, §5.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 5 - Taking of Blood and Urine Samples From Certain Dead Bodies. › Section 22-19-80 - Authority of Coroners, Deputy Coroners, State Toxicologist and Law Enforcement Officers; Purpose of Taking Samples.

Section 22-19-80
Authority of coroners, deputy coroners, State Toxicologist and law enforcement officers; purpose of taking samples.
(a) Each duly elected or appointed coroner in the State of Alabama is authorized to withdraw and retain or direct the withdrawal and retention of blood and/or urine from the dead body of a person who died unattended by a physician, or who died under suspicious circumstances, or where there is reasonable cause to believe the person died from unnatural and/or unlawful causes.
(b) Each duly elected or appointed deputy coroner shall have the same authority to withdraw and retain or direct the withdrawal and retention of a blood and/or urine sample when acting for the coroner.
(c) The State Toxicologist and his designated or appointed assistants are authorized to withdraw and retain or direct the withdrawal and retention of blood and/or urine from the dead body of a person who died unattended by a physician, or who died under suspicious circumstances, or where there is reasonable cause to believe the person died from unnatural and/or unlawful causes.
(d) A law enforcement officer investigating a fatal motor vehicle accident is authorized to direct the withdrawal and retention of blood and/or urine from the body of any such fatality.
(e) The purpose of any withdrawal and retention of blood and/or urine shall be for analyses or studies to assist in determining the cause, manner and circumstances of death, including a chemical or other test or tests for drugs and/or poisons.
(Acts 1977, No. 706, p. 1247.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 5 - Taking of Blood and Urine Samples From Certain Dead Bodies. › Section 22-19-81 - Persons Who May Be Directed to Withdraw Samples.

Section 22-19-81
Persons who may be directed to withdraw samples.
Only a physician, registered nurse, duly licensed clinical laboratory technologist, clinical laboratory technician, mortician, licensed embalmer or licensed practicing embalmer may be directed by a coroner, deputy coroner, a law enforcement officer or the State Toxicologist or his designated or appointed assistants to withdraw blood and/or urine for the purpose or purposes cited in Section 22-19-80.
(Acts 1977, No. 706, p. 1247.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 5 - Taking of Blood and Urine Samples From Certain Dead Bodies. › Section 22-19-82 - Exemption From Civil and Criminal Liability.

Section 22-19-82
Exemption from civil and criminal liability.
(a) No coroner, deputy coroner, the State Toxicologist and his designated or appointed assistants, mortician, licensed embalmer, physician, registered nurse, duly licensed clinical laboratory technologist or clinical laboratory technician or employers of the aforementioned persons shall incur any civil or criminal liability as a result of the proper withdrawal or securing or retention of a blood and/or urine specimen as provided by this article.
(b) The State Toxicologist and his designated or appointed assistants shall incur no civil or criminal liability as a result of the proper analyses or studies of blood and/or urine specimens withdrawn and retained as provided in this article.
(Acts 1977, No. 706, p. 1247.)