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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 5A › Section 22-19-85 - Retention by Medical Examiner of Organs From a Deceased Person for Additional Testing to Determine Identification or Cause or Manner of Death; Notice.

Section 22-19-85
Retention by medical examiner of organs from a deceased person for additional testing to determine identification or cause or manner of death; notice.
(a) Unless directed otherwise by the Governor, the Attorney General, a district attorney, or an order of a circuit court judge, a medical examiner performing his or her duties in any county in this state as provided under existing law, including a medical examiner employed by the Department of Forensic Sciences, shall notify the next of kin, through the appropriate law enforcement agency, when retaining a deceased person's entire organ or organs for additional testing that is required to determine identification or the cause or manner of death.
(b) A medical examiner performing his or her duties in any county in this state as provided under existing law, including a medical examiner employed by the Department of Forensic Sciences, is prohibited from retaining a deceased person's entire organ or organs for research or any other purpose not in conjunction with a determination of identification or cause or manner of death without notification to, and approval by, the appropriate next of kin.
(Act 2021-168, §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 6 - Eye Enucleation. › Section 22-19-100 - Training of Eye Bank Employees in Eye Tissue Procurement.

Section 22-19-100
Training of eye bank employees in eye tissue procurement.
The Alabama Eye Bank is authorized to train employees of the eye bank in principles and procedures of sterile eye tissue procurement pursuant to the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and according to the medical standards of the Eye Bank Association of America.
(Acts 1980, No. 80-779, p. 1614, §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 6 - Eye Enucleation. › Section 22-19-101 - Certification of Qualifications, Proficiency, Etc.

Section 22-19-101
Certification of qualifications, proficiency, etc.
The Medical Director and the Executive Director of the Alabama Eye Bank shall certify that no employee shall be allowed to perform eye tissue procurement unless the employee possesses the necessary educational qualifications, standards of proficiency, and fitness.
(Acts 1980, No. 80-779, p. 1614, §2; 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 6 - Eye Enucleation. › Section 22-19-102 - Establishment of Standards, Procedures, Etc.

Section 22-19-102
Establishment of standards, procedures, etc.
The Medical Director and the Executive Director of the Alabama Eye Bank are authorized to establish and promulgate the standards, measures, procedures, and recommendations necessary to assure the employee hereunder possesses the knowledge and technical skill to perform donor eye tissue procurement acceptable as good ophthalmologic procedure according to the medical standards of the Eye Bank Association of America.
(Acts 1980, No. 80-779, p. 1614, §3; 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 6 - Eye Enucleation. › Section 22-19-103 - Employees to Comply With Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; No Liability.

Section 22-19-103
Employees to comply with Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; no liability.
Any employee of the Alabama Eye Bank who is trained in donor eye tissue procurement under this article shall comply with the provisions of the Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. Such eye bank technician acting in accordance with the terms of this article shall not have any liability either civil or criminal for such eye tissue procurement.
(Acts 1980, No. 80-779, p. 1614, §4; 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 6 - Eye Enucleation. › Section 22-19-104 - Article Cumulative.

Section 22-19-104
Article cumulative.
This article does not supersede, modify, or amend prior acts, specifically Sections 34-13-150 through 34-13-152.
(Acts 1980, No. 80-779, p. 1614, §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 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues. › Section 22-19-120 - Legislative Intent.

Section 22-19-120
Legislative intent.
(a) The acquisition and transportation and transplantation of donor organs, bones and tissues is becoming more common place as new scientific and technological developments find better ways to conquer the human body's rejection of such transplanted organs, bones and tissues. In its concern that donee recipients be provided the best possible quality assurance that such donated organs, bones and tissues, retrieved in Alabama are free from any contagious or communicable disease or defect, the Legislature intends to establish in this article a framework for the development of appropriate standards of care and quality assurance for the acquisition and/or transportation of organs, bones and tissues retrieved in Alabama.
(b) It is also the intent of this article to recognize and utilize the quality assurance already developed in Alabama by the Department of Surgery of the School of Medicine, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center by authorizing the Chairman of the Department of Surgery to establish and promulgate the standards of proficiency and fitness and measures and procedures necessary to assure that persons involved in organ acquisition and/or transportation of organs retrieved in Alabama possess and provide the necessary knowledge and technical skills to acquire and/or transport organs, bones and tissues within acceptable levels of quality assurance.
(c) It is also the intent of this article to provide sanctions against persons who fail to adhere to and follow such established policies and procedures and standards for quality assurance in the acquisition and/or transportation in Alabama of donor organs, bones, and tissues retrieved in Alabama.
(Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §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 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues. › Section 22-19-121 - Definitions.

Section 22-19-121
Definitions.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) CHAIRMAN. The Chairman of the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
(2) PERSON. Any person, firm, partnership, association, joint venture, or corporation, and any combination of persons herein specified, but "person" shall not include the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof, except in the case of voluntary submission to the policies and procedures and standards for quality assurance established by this article and by the "chairman".
(3) QUALITY ASSURANCE. The policies and procedures and standards of quality for the acquisition and/or transportation of donated organs, bones, and tissue retrieved in Alabama.
(4) ORGAN. Any human organ, human bone or human tissue, or any other part or portions of the human body, retrieved in Alabama except that the term "organ" shall not include blood, blood products, or eyes or corneas of the eye for the purposes established by this article.
(5) SERVICE. Any service pertaining to the acquisition and/or transporting of organs, bones, or tissues retrieved in Alabama.
(Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §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 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues. › Section 22-19-122 - Promulgation of Proficiency Standards and Quality Assurance Measures; Certification to Acquire and Transport Organs, etc.; Updating of Quality Assurance Standards.

Section 22-19-122
Promulgation of proficiency standards and quality assurance measures; certification to acquire and transport organs, etc.; updating of quality assurance standards.
(a) The Chairman of the Department of Surgery of the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is authorized to establish and promulgate the standards of proficiency and fitness and measures and procedures for quality assurance in the acquiring and/or transporting of organs, bones, and tissues retrieved in Alabama.
(b) The Chairman of the Department of Surgery of the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham shall certify when a person shall be allowed to acquire and/or transport any organ, bone or tissue retrieved in Alabama. The chairman shall not certify any person to acquire and/or transport any organ, bone or tissue to be retrieved in Alabama until such person possesses and demonstrates to the chairman the necessary knowledge and technical skills to comply with the established standards of proficiency and fitness.
(c) After the chairman establishes and promulgates the initial standards of quality assurance, any proposed subsequent updating, except to meet federal standards, are to be circulated for comment only, to any institution in Alabama then performing organ transplants. The chairman shall still have the final and sole decision to establish and promulgate whatever is appropriate for updating the standards of quality assurance.
(Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §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 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues. › Section 22-19-123 - Adherence to Quality Assurance Standards.

Section 22-19-123
Adherence to quality assurance standards.
Any person providing any service pertaining to the acquisition and/or transportation of donor organs, bones and tissues retrieved in Alabama, shall strictly adhere to and follow the established quality assurance standards of proficiency and fitness and measures and procedures as established and promulgated by the chairman.
(Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §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 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues. › Section 22-19-124 - Sanctions for Violations of Article.

Section 22-19-124
Sanctions for violations of article.
Any person providing services in violation of the established policies and procedures and standards for quality assurance, as established and promulgated by the chairman, shall not receive reimbursement for such services. This provision applies to all reimbursement programs administered by the State of Alabama. Recommendations, by the chairman, will be made to other reimbursing agencies that reimbursement be denied.
(Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §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 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues. › Section 22-19-125 - Immunity of Persons Complying With Article and Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.

Section 22-19-125
Immunity of persons complying with article and Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.
Any person who, in good faith, follows the policies and procedures and standards as established by the chairman for quality assurance, and complies with the provisions of the Alabama Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, shall not have any liability, either civil or criminal, for such acquiring, and/or transporting any organs, bones, or tissues retrieved in Alabama.
(Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §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 7 - Acquisition and Transportation of Donor Organs, Bones and Tissues. › Section 22-19-126 - Construction With Other Laws; State Standards to Be Consistent With Federal Standards.

Section 22-19-126
Construction with other laws; state standards to be consistent with federal standards.
(a) The provisions of this article are cumulative and insofar as possible, they shall be construed in pari materia with other laws relating to the public health and anatomical gifts.
(b) At such time that standards of quality assurance for the acquisition and/or transporting and/or transplanting of donated organs, bones and tissues are adopted by the federal government, said Alabama standards of quality assurance shall be consistent with the appropriate federal regulations.
(Acts 1986, No. 86-225, p. 329, §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 8 - Lifesaving Organ Procurement Act. › Section 22-19-140 - Legislative Intent.

Section 22-19-140
Legislative intent.
(a) The Legislature of Alabama is acutely aware of the serious shortage of organs needed for transplantation. In its concern with this shortage of organs, the Legislature intends to establish in this article, a mechanism for the requesting of donor organs of any person who has died in a hospital and has not made an anatomical gift to take effect upon death.
(b) The Legislature of Alabama believes the citizens of Alabama are compassionate and loving, and, in the appropriate circumstances, will respond to the request for organs for transplantation in that such a gift is, many times, literally, a "gift of life".
(c) It is also the intent of the Legislature of Alabama to encourage organ donation in Alabama by establishing "The Lifesaving Organ Procurement Act of 1986."
(Acts 1986, No. 86-226, p. 333, §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 8 - Lifesaving Organ Procurement Act. › Section 22-19-141 - Definitions.

Section 22-19-141
Definitions.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) ORGAN. Organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood or other fluids and any other part or portions of a human body.
(2) ATTENDING PHYSICIAN. The physician selected by, or assigned to, the patient and who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient.
(Acts 1986, No. 86-226, p. 333, §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 8 - Lifesaving Organ Procurement Act. › Section 22-19-142 - Request for Consent to an Anatomical Gift; Request Not Required Where Anatomical Gift Would Not Be Suitable for Use.

Section 22-19-142
Request for consent to an anatomical gift; request not required where anatomical gift would not be suitable for use.
(a) When death occurs in a hospital to a patient who has not made an anatomical gift to take effect upon death, the hospital administrator, or designated representative, shall request the person described in Section 22-19-42(b), in the 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 indication by the decedent or one in a prior class, to consent to the gift of organs of the decedent's body as an anatomical gift.
(b) Where such request is made, pursuant to this section, the request and its disposition shall be noted in the patient's medical record.
(c) Where, based upon medical criteria, such request would not yield an anatomical gift which would be suitable for use, there is an authorized exception to the request required by this section.
(d) Where, based upon the attending physician's special and peculiar knowledge of the decedent and/or the circumstances surrounding the death of the patient, the attending physician, in his/her sole judgment, may determine that a request shall not be made for an anatomical gift, such determination shall be noted in the patient's medical record. Such a determination and noting in the patient's medical record shall be an exception to the request required by this section.
(Acts 1986, No. 86-226, p. 333, §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 8 - Lifesaving Organ Procurement Act. › Section 22-19-143 - Immunity of Persons Complying With Article.

Section 22-19-143
Immunity of persons complying with article.
Any person who acts in good faith in accord with the terms of this article or with the anatomical gift laws of this state, or another state, or a foreign country shall not be liable for damages in any civil action or subject to prosecution in any criminal proceeding for such act.
(Acts 1986, No. 86-226, p. 333, §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 8 - Lifesaving Organ Procurement Act. › Section 22-19-144 - Construction With Other Laws.

Section 22-19-144
Construction with other laws.
The provisions of this article are cumulative and, insofar as possible, they shall be construed in pari materia with other laws relating to the public health and anatomical gifts.
(Acts 1986, No. 86-226, p. 333, §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 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-160 - Short Title.

Section 22-19-160
Short title.
This article may be cited as the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §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 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-162 - Applicability.

Section 22-19-162
Applicability.
This article applies to an anatomical gift or amendment to, revocation of, or refusal to make an anatomical gift, whenever made.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §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 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-163 - Who May Make Anatomical Gift Before Donor's Death.

Section 22-19-163
Who may make anatomical gift before donor's death.
Subject to Section 22-19-167, an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education in the manner provided in Section 22-19-164 by:
(1) the donor, if the donor is an adult or if the donor is a minor and is:
(A) emancipated; or
(B) authorized under state law to apply for a driver's license because the donor is at least 16 years of age;
(2) an agent of the donor, unless the power of attorney for health care or other record prohibits the agent from making an anatomical gift;
(3) a parent of the donor, if the donor is an unemancipated minor; or
(4) the donor's guardian.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §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 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-164 - Manner of Making Anatomical Gift Before Donor's Death.

Section 22-19-164
Manner of making anatomical gift before donor's death.
(a) A donor may make an anatomical gift:
(1) by authorizing a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift to be imprinted on the donor's driver's license or identification card;
(2) in a will;
(3) during a terminal illness or injury of the donor, by any form of communication addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness; or
(4) as provided in subsection (b).
(b) A donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-163 may make a gift by a donor card or other record signed by the donor or other person making the gift or by authorizing that a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift be included on a donor registry. If the donor or other person is physically unable to sign a record, the record may be signed by another individual at the direction of the donor or other person and must:
(1) be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the donor or the other person; and
(2) state that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in subdivision (1).
(c) Revocation, suspension, expiration, or cancellation of a driver's license or identification card upon which an anatomical gift is indicated does not invalidate the gift.
(d) An anatomical gift made by will takes effect upon the donor's death whether or not the will is probated. Invalidation of the will after the donor's death does not invalidate the gift.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-165 - Amending or Revoking Anatomical Gift Before Donor's Death.

Section 22-19-165
Amending or revoking anatomical gift before donor's death.
(a) Subject to Section 22-19-167, a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-163 may amend or revoke an anatomical gift by:
(1) a record signed by:
(A) the donor;
(B) the other person; or
(C) subject to subsection (b), another individual acting at the direction of the donor or the other person if the donor or other person is physically unable to sign; or
(2) a later-executed document of gift that amends or revokes a previous anatomical gift or portion of an anatomical gift, either expressly or by inconsistency.
(b) A record signed pursuant to subsection (a)(1)(C) must:
(1) be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the donor or the other person; and
(2) state that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in subdivision (1).
(c) Subject to Section 22-19-167, a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-163 may revoke an anatomical gift by the destruction or cancellation of the document of gift, or the portion of the document of gift used to make the gift, with the intent to revoke the gift.
(d) A donor may amend or revoke an anatomical gift that was not made in a will by any form of communication during a terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness.
(e) A donor who makes an anatomical gift in a will may amend or revoke the gift in the manner provided for amendment or revocation of wills or as provided in subsection (a).
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-166 - Refusal to Make Anatomical Gift; Effect of Refusal.

Section 22-19-166
Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal.
(a) An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part by:
(1) a record signed by:
(A) the individual; or
(B) subject to subsection (b), another individual acting at the direction of the individual if the individual is physically unable to sign;
(2) the individual's will, whether or not the will is admitted to probate or invalidated after the individual's death; or
(3) any form of communication made by the individual during the individual's terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness.
(b) A record signed pursuant to subsection (a)(1)(B) must:
(1) be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the individual; and
(2) state that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in subdivision (1).
(c) An individual who has made a refusal may amend or revoke the refusal:
(1) in the manner provided in subsection (a) for making a refusal;
(2) by subsequently making an anatomical gift pursuant to Section 22-19-164 that is inconsistent with the refusal; or
(3) by destroying or canceling the record evidencing the refusal, or the portion of the record used to make the refusal, with the intent to revoke the refusal.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in Section 22-19-167(h), in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the individual set forth in the refusal, an individual's unrevoked refusal to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part bars all other persons from making an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-167 - Preclusive Effect of Anatomical Gift, Amendment, or Revocation.

Section 22-19-167
Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) and subject to subsection (f), in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor, a person other than the donor is barred from making, amending, or revoking an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part if the donor made an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-164 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-165.
(b) A donor's revocation of an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-165 is not a refusal and does not bar another person specified in Section 22-19-163 or 22-19-168 from making an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-164 or 22-19-169.
(c) If a person other than the donor makes an unrevoked anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-164 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-165, another person may not make, amend, or revoke the gift of the donor's body or part under Section 22-19-169.
(d) A revocation of an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part under Section 22-19-165 by a person other than the donor does not bar another person from making an anatomical gift of the body or part under Section 22-19-164 or 22-19-169.
(e) In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-163, an anatomical gift of a part is neither a refusal to give another part nor a limitation on the making of an anatomical gift of another part at a later time by the donor or another person.
(f) In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-163, an anatomical gift of a part for one or more of the purposes set forth in Section 22-19-163 is not a limitation on the making of an anatomical gift of the part for any of the other purposes by the donor or any other person under Section 22-19-164 or 22-19-169.
(g) If a donor who is an unemancipated minor dies, a parent of the donor who is reasonably available may revoke or amend an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part.
(h) If an unemancipated minor who signed a refusal dies, a parent of the minor who is reasonably available may revoke the minor's refusal.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-168 - Who May Make Anatomical Gift of Decedent's Body or Part.

Section 22-19-168
Who may make anatomical gift of decedent's body or part.
(a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c) and unless barred by Section 22-19-166 or 22-19-167, an anatomical gift of a decedent's body or part for purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education may be made by any member of the following classes of persons who is reasonably available, in the order of priority listed:
(1) an agent of the decedent at the time of death who could have made an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-163(2) immediately before the decedent's death;
(2) the spouse of the decedent;
(3) adult children of the decedent;
(4) parents of the decedent;
(5) adult siblings of the decedent;
(6) adult grandchildren of the decedent;
(7) grandparents of the decedent;
(8) an adult who exhibited special care and concern for the decedent;
(9) the persons who were acting as the guardians of the person of the decedent at the time of death; and
(10) any other person having the authority to dispose of the decedent's body.
(b) If there is more than one member of a class listed in subsection (a)(1), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), or (9) entitled to make an anatomical gift, an anatomical gift may be made by a member of the class unless that member or a person to which the gift may pass under Section 22-19-170 knows of an objection by another member of the class. If an objection is known, the gift may be made only by a majority of the members of the class who are reasonably available.
(c) A person may not make an anatomical gift if, at the time of the decedent's death, a person in a prior class under subsection (a) is reasonably available to make or to object to the making of an anatomical gift.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-169 - Manner of Making, Amending, or Revoking Anatomical Gift of Decedent's Body or Part.

Section 22-19-169
Manner of making, amending, or revoking anatomical gift of decedent's body or part.
(a) A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under Section 22-19-168 may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by the person making the gift or by that person's oral communication that is electronically recorded or is contemporaneously reduced to a record and signed by the individual receiving the oral communication.
(b) Subject to subsection (c), an anatomical gift by a person authorized under Section 22-19-168 may be amended or revoked orally or in a record by any member of a prior class who is reasonably available. If more than one member of the prior class is reasonably available, the gift made by a person authorized under Section 22-19-168 may be:
(1) amended only if a majority of the reasonably available members agree to the amending of the gift; or
(2) revoked only if a majority of the reasonably available members agree to the revoking of the gift or if they are equally divided as to whether to revoke the gift.
(c) A revocation under subsection (b) is effective only if, before an incision has been made to remove a part from the donor's body or before invasive procedures have begun to prepare the recipient, the procurement organization, transplant hospital, or physician, surgeon, surgeon's assistant, certified procurement transplant coordinator (certified by the Alabama Organ Center), tissue recovery technician (certified by the Alabama Organ Center), or technician certified by the Eye Bank after completing training according to the medical standards of the Eye Bank Association of America to carry out the appropriate procedures knows of the revocation.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-171 - Search and Notification.

Section 22-19-171
Search and notification.
(a) The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the person reasonably believes is dead or near death for a document of gift or other information identifying the individual as a donor or as an individual who made a refusal:
(1) a law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, or other emergency rescuer finding the individual; and
(2) if no other source of the information is immediately available, a hospital, as soon as practical after the individual's arrival at the hospital.
(b) If a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift is located by the search required by subsection (a)(1) and the individual or deceased individual to whom it relates is taken to a hospital, the person responsible for conducting the search shall send the document of gift or refusal to the hospital.
(c) A person is not subject to criminal or civil liability for failing to discharge the duties imposed by this section but may be subject to administrative sanctions.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-172 - Delivery of Document of Gift Not Required; Right to Examine.

Section 22-19-172
Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine.
(a) A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor's lifetime to be effective.
(b) Upon or after an individual's death, a person in possession of a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift with respect to the individual shall allow examination and copying of the document of gift or refusal by a person authorized to make or object to the making of an anatomical gift with respect to the individual or by a person to which the gift could pass under Section 22-19-170.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-174 - Coordination of Procurement and Use.

Section 22-19-174
Coordination of procurement and use.
Each hospital in this state shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-175 - Sale or Purchase of Parts Prohibited.

Section 22-19-175
Sale or purchase of parts prohibited.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a person, that for valuable consideration, knowingly purchases or sells a part for transplantation or therapy if removal of a part from an individual is intended to occur after the individual's death commits a Class C felony.
(b) A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a part.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-176 - Other Prohibited Acts.

Section 22-19-176
Other prohibited acts.
A person that, in order to obtain a financial gain, intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces, or obliterates a document of gift, an amendment or revocation of a document of gift, or a refusal commits a Class C felony.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-177 - Immunity.

Section 22-19-177
Immunity.
(a) In the absence of wantonness or willful misconduct, a person that acts in accordance with this article or with the applicable anatomical gift law of another state, or attempts in good faith to do so, is not liable for the act in a civil action, criminal prosecution, or administrative proceeding.
(b) In the absence of wantonness or willful misconduct, neither the person making an anatomical gift nor the donor's estate is liable for any injury or damage that results from the making or use of the gift.
(c) In determining whether an anatomical gift has been made, amended, or revoked under this article, a person may rely upon representations of an individual listed in Section 22-19-168(a)(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), or (8) relating to the individual's relationship to the donor or prospective donor unless the person knows that the representation is untrue.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-178 - Law Governing Validity; Choice of Law as to Execution of Document of Gift; Presumption of Validity.

Section 22-19-178
Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity.
(a) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with:
(1) this article;
(2) the laws of the state or country where it was executed; or
(3) the laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence, or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed.
(b) If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift.
(c) A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-179 - Donor Registry.

Section 22-19-179
Donor registry.
(a) The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency may establish or contract for the establishment of a donor registry.
(b) The Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency shall cooperate with a person that administers any donor registry that this state establishes, contracts for, or recognizes for the purpose of transferring to the donor registry all relevant information regarding a donor's making, amendment to, or revocation of an anatomical gift.
(c) A donor registry must:
(1) allow a donor or other person authorized under Section 22-19-163 to include on the donor registry a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift;
(2) be accessible to a procurement organization to allow it to obtain relevant information on the donor registry to determine, at or near death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift; and
(3) be accessible for purposes of subdivisions (1) and (2) seven days a week on a 24-hour basis.
(d) Personally identifiable information on a donor registry about a donor or prospective donor may not be used or disclosed without the express consent of the donor, prospective donor, or person that made the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at or near death of the donor or prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift.
(e) This section does not prohibit any person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the state. Any such registry must comply with subsections (c) and (d).
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-180 - Effect of Anatomical Gift on Advance Health Care Directive.

Section 22-19-180
Effect of anatomical gift on advance health care directive.
(a) In this section:
(1) "Advance health care directive" means a power of attorney for health care or a record signed or authorized by a prospective donor containing the prospective donor's direction concerning a health care decision for the prospective donor.
(2) "Declaration" means a record signed by a prospective donor specifying the circumstances under which a life support system may be withheld or withdrawn from the prospective donor.
(3) "Health care decision" means any decision regarding the health care of the prospective donor.
(b) If a prospective donor has a declaration or advance health care directive, and the terms of the declaration or directive and the express or implied terms of a potential anatomical gift are in conflict with regard to the administration of measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of a part for transplantation or therapy the prospective donor's attending physician and prospective donor shall confer to resolve the conflict. If the prospective donor is incapable of resolving the conflict, an agent acting under the prospective donor's declaration or directive, or, if none, or the agent is not reasonably available, another person authorized by law other than this article to make health care decisions on behalf of the prospective donor, shall act for the donor to resolve the conflict. The conflict must be resolved as expeditiously as possible. Information relevant to the resolution of the conflict may be obtained from the appropriate procurement organization and any other person authorized to make an anatomical gift for the prospective donor under Section 22-19-168. Before resolution of the conflict, measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of the part may not be withheld or withdrawn from the prospective donor if withholding or withdrawing the measures is not contraindicated by appropriate end-of-life care.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies. › Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-183 - Uniformity of Application and Construction.

Section 22-19-183
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.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §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 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. › Section 22-19-184 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

Section 22-19-184
Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
This article 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).
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 20 - Miscellaneous Health Laws. › Section 22-20-1 - Use of Common Drinking Cups or Towels in Public Places Prohibited.

Section 22-20-1
Use of common drinking cups or towels in public places prohibited.
It shall be unlawful to provide for use, or permit the use of, a common drinking cup or a common towel in any hotel, restaurant, railroad car, railroad station or other place frequented by the public.
(Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1133; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940, T. 22, §72.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control. › Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally. › Chapter 20 - Miscellaneous Health Laws. › Section 22-20-2 - Prevention of Infantile Blindness.

Section 22-20-2
Prevention of infantile blindness.
Any physician, midwife, nurse or other person in attendance on a confinement case shall, within two hours after the birth of the child, use one of the following prophylactic solutions for the prevention of infantile blindness or ophthalmia neonatorum, two drops of the solution to be dropped in each eye after the eyelids have been opened:
(1) A one percent fresh solution of nitrate of silver, or
(2) Such other solution as may be prescribed by the State Board of Health.
(Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §1115; Code 1940, T. 22, §58; Acts 1981, No. 81-439, p. 757, §16.)