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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