Title 22

(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…

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, car…

(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 …

(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…

(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…

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.)

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 ques…

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 ap…

(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 trans…

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 …

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 id…

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 i…

(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 w…

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 hi…

(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 person…

(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…

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, …

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.…

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 …

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 liab…

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.)

(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 i…

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 p…

(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 transpor…

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 …

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 admin…

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 acq…

(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/…

(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 di…

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 PHY…

(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 pr…

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.…

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.)

This article may be cited as the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. (Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)

In this article: (1) “Adult” means an individual who is at least 18 years of age. (2) “Agent” means an individual: (A) authorized to make health care decisions on the principal’s behalf by a power of attorney for health care; or (B) expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift…

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.)

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 th…

(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 …

(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 act…

(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; …

(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 m…

(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 reasona…

(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…

(a) An anatomical gift may be made to the following persons named in the document of gift: (1) a hospital; accredited medical school, dental school, college, or university; organ procurement organization; or other appropriate person, for research or education; (2) subject to subs…

(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 offic…

(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 copyi…