Sec. 9. (a) A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under section 8 of this chapter may make an anatomical gift by a document or may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by the person making the gift or by 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.
(b) Subject to subsection (c), an anatomical gift by a person authorized under section 8 of this chapter 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 (1) member of the prior class is reasonably available, the gift made by a person authorized under section 8 of this chapter may be:
(1) amended only if a majority of the reasonably available members agree to the amending 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.
(c) A revocation under subsection (b) 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.
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