Sec. 11. (a) The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the person reasonably believes is dead or near death in a hospital for a document of gift or other information identifying the individual as a donor or as an individual who made a refusal:
(1) An organ procurement organization.
(2) A tissue bank.
(3) An eye bank.
(4) If no other source of the information is immediately available, a hospital, as soon as practical after the individual's arrival at the hospital.
(b) If a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift is located by the search required by subsection (a) and the individual or deceased individual to whom it relates is taken to a hospital, the person responsible for conducting the search shall send the document of gift or refusal to the hospital.
(c) A person is not subject to civil liability for failing to discharge the duties imposed by this section but may be subject to criminal liability or administrative sanctions.
As added by P.L.147-2007, SEC.12.
Structure Indiana Code
Article 2. Miscellaneous Provisions
Chapter 16.1. Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
29-2-16.1-2. Chapter Application
29-2-16.1-3. Persons Who May Make Anatomical Gifts During the Lifetime of a Donor
29-2-16.1-4. Methods of Making Anatomical Gifts
29-2-16.1-5. Amendment or Revocation of Anatomical Gifts
29-2-16.1-6. Refusal of Anatomical Gifts
29-2-16.1-8. Priority of Persons Authorized to Make an Anatomical Gift of a Decedent's Body or Part
29-2-16.1-9. Anatomical Gift Documents; Amendments; Revocations
29-2-16.1-11. Searches for Documents of Gift or Refusal
29-2-16.1-12. Petitions to Determine Anatomical Gift or Revocation of Anatomical Gift
29-2-16.1-13. Organ or Tissue Donor Queries for Hospital Patients
29-2-16.1-14. Documents of Gift
29-2-16.1-16. Hospital Agreements With Procurement Organizations
29-2-16.1-17. Liability; Immunity
29-2-16.1-18. Validity of a Document of Gift
29-2-16.1-20. Declarations and Advance Health Care Directives; Procurement Organizations