22-19-170
Section 22-19-170 Persons that may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift.
(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 subsection
(b), an individual designated by the person making the anatomical gift if the individual is
the recipient of the part; (3) an eye bank or tissue bank. (b) If an anatomical gift to an
individual under subsection (a)(2) cannot be transplanted into the individual, the part passes
in accordance with subsection (g) in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the
person making the anatomical gift. (c) If an anatomical gift of one or more specific parts
or of all parts is made in a document of gift that does not name a person described in subsection
(a) but identifies the purpose for which an anatomical gift may be...
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22-19-168
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...
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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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22-19-182
Section 22-19-182 Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under
jurisdiction of coroner or medical examiner. (a) Upon request of a procurement organization,
a coroner or medical examiner shall release to the procurement organization the name, contact
information, and available medical and social history of a decedent whose body is under the
jurisdiction of the coroner or medical examiner. Specific operational details regarding visitation,
referral methods, recovery logistics, and efforts to minimize interruptions to the operations
of the coroner and/or medical examiner will be established in the protocols referenced in
Section 22-19-181 (d). Section 164.512 of the Health Information Portability
and Protection Act, enacted 1996, specifies that a covered entity may use or disclose protected
health information to organ procurement organizations or other entities engaged in the procurement,
banking, or transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissues for the...
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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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26-23F-5
Section 26-23F-5 Sale or other disposition of bodily remains of unborn infant. (a)(1)
No person shall knowingly accept compensation or payment for the sale, transfer, distribution,
acceptance, use, or attempted use of the fetal organs, tissue, or bodily remains of a deceased
unborn infant for research, therapy, transplantation, or experimentation. (2) No institution,
entity, or individual shall knowingly provide any compensation or payment to any other person,
organization, or entity for the removal, transfer, storage, processing, preservation, quality
control, implantation, transportation, distribution, disposal, or other manner of disposition
of the bodily remains of a deceased unborn infant for research, therapy, transplantation,
experimentation, or any other prohibited purpose under this chapter. (b) No person shall knowingly
aid or abet in any prohibited activity under subsection (a). (c) No person shall use an unborn
infant, living or deceased, in research or experimentation....
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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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22-19-180
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...

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22-19-163
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.)...
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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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