Organ Donation Law Changes - SC

The Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act amends Title 44, Laws of South Carolina.  It deletes the provision stating that a donor designation on a driver’s license does not constitute execution of gift under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.  It revises definitions, donor eligibility, donation amendment and revocation procedures, and the priority order to give consent, donee qualifications; and establishes procedures for refusal to make an anatomical gift.  It also provides that a person who is in possession of a document of an anatomical gift, or refusal of a gift, shall send the document to the hospital if the individual executing or refusing the gift is believed to be deceased or near death.  As a safeguard, it provides that a physician who attended a person at death or who determines the time of death may not participate in removal or transplantation procedures.  It also establishes criminal penalties for selling or purchasing organs and for obtaining financial gain by falsifying or defacing a donation document, and establishes criteria for the validity of an organ donation.  The changes were effective May 2009.  For more information contact attorney Karen Hindson at karen@hindsonlawfirm.com or (843) 720-3722. 

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