Ohio Revised Code
Chapter 2108 | Human Bodies or Parts Thereof
Section 2108.70 | Assignment of Rights Regarding Disposition of Remains.

Effective: October 12, 2006
Latest Legislation: House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly
(A) As used in this section and sections 2108.71 to 2108.90 of the Revised Code:
(1) "Adult" means an individual who is eighteen years of age or older.
(2) "Declarant" means an adult who has executed a written declaration described in division (B) of this section.
(3) "Representative" means an adult or a group of adults, collectively, to whom a declarant has assigned the right of disposition.
(4) "Right of disposition" means one or more of the rights described in division (B) of this section that a declarant chooses to assign to a representative in a written declaration executed under that division or all of the rights described in division (B) of this section that are assigned to a person pursuant to section 2108.81 of the Revised Code.
(5) "Successor representative" means an adult or group of adults, collectively, to whom the right of disposition for a declarant has been reassigned because the declarant's representative is disqualified from exercising the right under section 2108.75 of the Revised Code. Each successor representative shall be considered in the order the representative is designated by the declarant.
(B) An adult who is of sound mind may execute at any time a written declaration assigning to a representative one or more of the following rights:
(1) The right to direct the disposition, after death, of the declarant's body or any part of the declarant's body that becomes separated from the body before death. This right includes the right to determine the location, manner, and conditions of the disposition of the declarant's bodily remains.
(2) The right to make arrangements and purchase goods and services for the declarant's funeral. This right includes the right to determine the location, manner, and condition of the declarant's funeral.
(3) The right to make arrangements and purchase goods and services for the declarant's burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition. This right includes the right to determine the location, manner, and condition of the declarant's burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition.
(C)(1) Subject to division (C)(2) of this section, a declarant may designate a successor representative.
(2) If a representative is a group of persons and not all of the persons in the group meet at least one criterion to be disqualified from serving as the representative, as described in section 2108.75 of the Revised Code, the persons in the group who are not disqualified shall remain the representative who has the right of disposition.
(D) The assignment or reassignment of a right of disposition to a representative and a successor representative supercedes an assignment of a right of disposition under section 2108.81 of the Revised Code.

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