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Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 5. DRIVERS’ LICENSES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

40-5-6. Form for making anatomical gifts upon issuance or renewal of driver’s license or identification card.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    Whenever any person applies for or requests the issuance, reissuance, or renewal of any class of driver’s license or identification card, the department shall furnish such person with a form, sufficient under Article 6 of Chapter 5 of Title 44, the “Georgia Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act,” for the gift of all or part of the donor’s body conditioned upon the donor’s death. If any such person, legally authorized to execute such a gift as provided for pursuant to Code Section 44-5-142, desires to execute a gift, the department shall provide such person with appropriate assistance and the presence of the legally required number of witnesses.#

  2. (b)

    A notation shall be affixed to or made a part of every driver’s license and identification card issued in this state indicating whether or not the licensee or cardholder has executed, under Article 6 of Chapter 5 of Title 44, the “Georgia Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act,” a gift, by will or otherwise, of all or part of his or her body conditioned upon the donor’s death.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1974, p. 1117, §§ 1, 2; Code 1981, § 40-5-7; Code 1981, § 40-5-6, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 4; Ga. L. 2008, p. 503, § 4/SB 405; Ga. L. 2015, p. 60, § 4-7/SB 100; Ga. L. 2024, p. 1052, § 4(41)/SB 448, effective July 1, 2024.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “identification card” for “personal identification card” in subsections (a) and (b).

Editor's notes

Former Code Section 40-5-6, relating to mailing of notice by the department, was based on Ga. L. 1975, p. 1008, and was repealed by Ga. L. 1989, p. 519, § 4, effective April 10, 1989. Ga. L. 2015, p. 60, § 6-1/SB 100, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “Section 4-9 of Part IV of this Act shall become effective on January 1, 2016, and all other parts of this Act shall become effective on July 1, 2015, and shall apply to offenses which occur on or after that date.”

Cross references

Donation of human eyes to eye banks, § 31-23-1 et seq. Anatomical gifts, § 44-5-140 et seq.

Law reviews

For article, “Medical Decision-Making in Georgia,” see 10 Ga. St. B.J. 50 (No. 7, 2005). For survey article on wills, trusts, guardianships, and fiduciary administration, see 60 Mercer L. Rev. 417 (2008).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t40-ch1-5-(v28a)-2024-pdf.pdf, Volume V28A, 2024 edition, pages 508 to 509; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 991cd8c9db96.