Section 194.250

Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

Chapter 194

Effective - 28 Aug 2008   

  194.250.  Document of gift, procedure. — 1.  A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under section 194.245 may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by the person making the gift or 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.

  2.  Subject to subsection 3 of this section, an anatomical gift by a person authorized under section 194.245 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 194.245 may be:

  (1)  Amended only if a majority of reasonably available members agree to the revoking 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 are equally divided as to whether to revoke the gift.

  3.  A revocation under subsection 2 of this section is effective only if, before an incision has been made to remove a part from the donor's body or before invasive procedures have begun to prepare the recipient, the procurement organization, transplant hospital, or physician or technician knows of the revocation.

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(L. 1969 S.B. 43 § 5, A.L. 2008 S.B. 1139)