CODE OF VIRGINIA

SEARCH AND NOTIFICATION (§ 32.1-291.12)

A. The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the
person reasonably believes is dead or whose death is imminent for a document of
gift or other information identifying the individual as a donor or as an
individual who made a refusal:

   1.  A law-enforcement officer, a firefighter, emergency medical services
   personnel, or other emergency rescuer finding the individual; and

   2.  If no other source of the information is immediately available, a
   hospital, as soon as practical after the individual’s arrival at the
   hospital.

B. If a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift is located by
the search required by subdivision A 1 and the individual or deceased individual
to whom it relates is taken to a hospital, the person responsible for conducting
the search shall send the document of gift or refusal to the hospital.

C. A person is not subject to criminal or civil liability for failing to
discharge the duties imposed by this section but may be subject to
administrative sanctions.

HISTORY: 2007, cc. 92, 907; 2015, cc. 502, 503.