CODE OF VIRGINIA

MANNER OF MAKING, AMENDING, OR REVOKING ANATOMICAL GIFT OF DECEDENT’S BODY
OR PART (§ 32.1-291.10)

A. A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under § 32.1-291.9 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 §
32.1-291.9 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 member of the prior
class is reasonably available, the gift made by a person authorized under §
32.1-291.9 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.

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.

HISTORY: 2007, cc. 92, 907.