22-19-100
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.)...
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22-19-102
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.)...
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22-19-181
Section 22-19-181 Cooperation between coroner, medical examiner, and procurement organization.
(a) A coroner or medical examiner or district attorney or local public health official or
a designee shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover
anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education when
it has been determined that the recovery will not interfere with a death investigation. The
organ procurement organization, tissue bank, and eye bank will make every reasonable effort
to seek approval and release from the coroner or medical examiner or district attorney or
designee prior to proceeding with consent approaches to the authorized parties as described
in this article. The request for release process will begin with the coroner or designee,
who may defer to the medical examiner or designee, who may subsequently defer to the district
attorney or designee. At the time of coroner or medical examiner or district...
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22-19-161
Section 22-19-161 Definitions. 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 on the principal's behalf by
any other record signed by the principal. (3) "Anatomical gift" means a donation
of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation,
therapy, research, or education. (4) "Coroner" means an elected or appointed official
who determines, with the assistance of other forensic scientists and investigators, the cause,
manner, and circumstances surrounding death. (5) "Decedent" means a deceased individual
whose body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. The term includes a stillborn
infant and, subject to restrictions imposed by law other than this article, a fetus. (6) "Disinterested...

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22-19-169
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...
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22-19-103
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.)...
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45-49-171.77
Section 45-49-171.77 Cornea tissue transplants. (a) The medical examiner or forensic
science pathologist in Mobile County is hereby authorized to provide a cornea to any patient
in need of corneal tissue for a transplant upon request of a certified eye bank, certified
by the Eye Bank Association of America under all of the following conditions: (1) If a decedent
who may provide a suitable cornea for the transplant is under the jurisdiction of the medical
examiner or forensic science pathologist and an autopsy will be required in accordance with
state law. (2) If no objection by the next of kin is known by the medical examiner or forensic
science pathologist. (3) If the cornea for transplant will not interfere with the subsequent
course of an investigation or autopsy or will alter the postmortem facial appearance. (b)
Upon compliance with this section, the medical examiner or forensic science pathologist
or the certified eye bank shall not have any civil or criminal liability. (Act...
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22-19-73
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...
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22-19-173
Section 22-19-173 Rights and duties of procurement organization and others. (a) When
a hospital refers an individual at or near death to a procurement organization, the organization
shall make a reasonable search of the records of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency
and any donor registry that it knows exists for the geographical area in which the individual
resides to ascertain whether the individual has made an anatomical gift. (b) A procurement
organization must be allowed reasonable access to information in the records of the Alabama
State Law Enforcement Agency to ascertain whether an individual at or near death is a donor.
(c) When a hospital refers an individual at or near death to a procurement organization, the
organization may conduct any reasonable examination necessary to ensure the medical suitability
of a part that is or could be the subject of an anatomical gift for transplantation, therapy,
research, or education from a donor or a prospective donor. During the...
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22-19-101
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.)...
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