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title: O.C.G.A. § 44-5-151. Delivery of document.
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# O.C.G.A. § 44-5-151. Delivery of document.

(a) A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor’s lifetime to be effective.

(b) Upon or after an individual’s death, a person in possession of a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift with respect to the individual shall allow examination and copying of the document of gift or refusal by a person authorized to make or object to the making of an anatomical gift with respect to the individual or by a person to which the gift could pass under Code Section 44-5-149.

## History

Code 1981, § 44-5-151, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 503, § 1/SB 405.