Arizona Laws 36-850. Persons who may receive anatomical gifts; purpose of anatomical gift
A. An anatomical gift may be made to the following named in the document of gift:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-850
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Anatomical gift: means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research or education. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Decedent: means a deceased individual whose body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Document of gift: means a donor card or other record that is used to make an anatomical gift. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Eye bank: means a person that is licensed or regulated under federal or state law or is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency to engage in recovering, screening, testing, processing, storing or distributing human eyes or portions of human eyes. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Hospital: means a facility that is licensed as a hospital under the laws of any state or that is operated as a hospital by the United States, a state or a subdivision of a state. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Know: means to have actual knowledge. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Organ procurement organization: means a qualified organ procurement organization under 42 United States Code § 273 that is currently certified or recertified in accordance with that federal law. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Part: means an organ, eye or tissue of a human being. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Procurement organization: means any of the following:
(a) An organ procurement organization. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Recipient: means an individual into whose body a decedent's part has been or is intended to be transplanted. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Refusal: means a record created pursuant to section 36-846 that expressly states an intent to bar other persons from making an anatomical gift of an individual's body or part. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Tissue: means all or a portion of the human body other than blood, an organ or an eye unless the blood, organ or eye is donated for the purpose of research or education. See Arizona Laws 36-841
- Tissue bank: means a person that is licensed or regulated under federal or state law or is accredited as a tissue bank by a nationally recognized accrediting agency to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage or distribution of tissue. See Arizona Laws 36-841
1. An organ procurement organization.
2. A hospital, accredited medical school, dental school, college, university, procurement organization or any other appropriate person, for research or education.
3. A search and rescue unit established or recognized by any federal, state, county or local governmental entity to train search and rescue canines.
4. Subject to the requirements of subsection B of this section, an individual designated by the person making the anatomical gift if the individual is the recipient of the part.
5. An eye bank or a tissue bank.
B. If an anatomical gift to an individual pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 4 of this section cannot be transplanted into the individual, the part passes pursuant to subsection G of this section in the absence of an express contrary indication by the person making the anatomical gift.
C. If an anatomical gift of one or more specific parts or of all parts is made in a document of gift that does not name a person described in subsection A of this section but that identifies the purpose for which an anatomical gift may be used, the gift passes:
1. To the appropriate eye bank if the part is an eye and the gift is for the purpose of transplantation or therapy.
2. To the appropriate tissue bank if the part is tissue and the gift is for the purpose of transplantation or therapy.
3. To the organ procurement organization as custodian of the organ if the part is an organ and the gift is for the purpose of transplantation or therapy.
4. To the appropriate procurement organization if the part is an organ, an eye or tissue and the gift is for the purpose of research or education.
5. To the sheriff of the county in which the gift was made, who may transfer the gift to any canine search and rescue unit established or recognized by any federal, state, county or local governmental entity, and the gift is for the purpose of training search and rescue canines.
D. For the purposes of subsection C of this section, if there is more than one purpose of an anatomical gift stated in the document of gift but the purposes are not stated in any priority, the gift must be used for transplantation or therapy, if suitable. If the gift cannot be used for transplantation or therapy, the gift may be used for research or education or for training search and rescue canines.
E. If an anatomical gift of one or more specific parts is made in a document of gift that does not name a person described in subsection A of this section and does not identify the purpose of the gift, the gift may be used only for transplantation or therapy and the gift passes pursuant to subsection G of this section.
F. If a document of gift specifies only a general intent to make an anatomical gift by words such as "donor", "organ donor" or "body donor", or by a symbol or statement of similar import, the gift may be used only for transplantation or therapy and the gift passes pursuant to subsection G of this section.
G. For the purposes of subsections B, E and F of this section:
1. If the part is an eye, the gift passes to the appropriate eye bank.
2. If the part is tissue, the gift passes to the appropriate tissue bank.
3. If the part is an organ, the gift passes to the organ procurement organization as custodian of the organ.
H. An anatomical gift of an organ for transplantation or therapy, other than an anatomical gift pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 4 of this section, passes to the organ procurement organization as custodian of the organ.
I. If an anatomical gift does not pass pursuant to subsection A, B, C, D, E, F, G or H of this section or the decedent‘s body or part is not used for transplantation, therapy, research or education or for training search and rescue canines, custody of the body or part passes to the person who is under an obligation to dispose of the body or part pursuant to section 36-831.
J. A person may not accept an anatomical gift if the person knows that the gift was not effectively made pursuant to section 36-844 or 36-849 or if the person knows that the decedent made a refusal pursuant to section 36-846 that was not revoked. For the purposes of this subsection, if a person knows that an anatomical gift was made in a document of gift, the person is deemed to know of any amendment of the gift, revocation of the gift or refusal to make an anatomical gift in the same document of gift.
K. Except as otherwise provided in subsection A, paragraph 4 of this section, this article does not affect the allocation of organs for transplantation or therapy.