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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

44-5-157. Requirements for validity of document of gift; governing law.

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

  1. (a)

    A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with:#

    1. (1)

      This article;#

    2. (2)

      The laws of the state or country where it was executed; or#

    3. (3)

      The laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence, or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed.#

  2. (b)

    If a document of gift is valid under this Code section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift.#

  3. (c)

    A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.#

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, § 44-5-157, 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 510; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.