Sec. 19. (a) The bureau of motor vehicles, the professional licensing agency, and the department of natural resources shall cooperate with a person that administers any donor registry that this state establishes, contracts for, or recognizes for the purpose of transferring to the donor registry all relevant information regarding a donor's making, amendment to, or revocation of an anatomical gift.
(b) A donor registry must:
(1) allow a donor or other person authorized under section 4 of this chapter to include on the donor registry a statement or symbol that the donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift;
(2) be accessible to a procurement organization and to coroners to allow it to obtain relevant information on the donor registry to determine, at or near death of the donor or a prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift; and
(3) be accessible for purposes of subdivisions (1) and (2) seven (7) days a week on a twenty-four (24) hour basis.
(c) Personally identifiable information on a donor registry about a donor or prospective donor may not be used or disclosed without the express consent of the donor, prospective donor, or person that made the anatomical gift for any purpose other than to determine, at or near death of the donor or prospective donor, whether the donor or prospective donor has made, amended, or revoked an anatomical gift.
(d) This section does not prohibit any person from creating or maintaining a donor registry that is not established by or under contract with the state. Any such registry must comply with subsections (b) and (c).
As added by P.L.147-2007, SEC.12. Amended by P.L.11-2020, SEC.4; P.L.16-2022, SEC.3.
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