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Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 5. ACQUISITION AND LOSS OF PROPERTY · Article 6. REVISED UNIFORM ANATOMICAL GIFTS

44-5-142. Anatomical gifts during life of donor.

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

  1. Subject to Code Section 44-5-146, 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 Code Section 44-5-143 by:

  2. (1)

    The donor, if the donor is an adult or if the donor is a minor and is:#

    1. (A)

      Emancipated; or#

    2. (B)

      Authorized under state law to apply for a driver’s license because the donor is at least 16 years of age;#

  3. (2)

    An agent of the donor, unless the advance directive for health care or durable power of attorney for health care prohibits the agent from making an anatomical gift;#

  4. (3)

    A parent of the donor, if the donor is an unemancipated minor; or#

  5. (4)

    The donor’s guardian.#

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

Code 1981, § 44-5-142, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 503, § 1/SB 405.

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

Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, page 499; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.