TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 34

REVISED UNIFORM ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT

39-3420.  Law governing validity — Choice of law as to execution of document of gift — presumption of validity. (1) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with:

(a)  This chapter;

(b)  The laws of the state or country where it was executed; or

(c)  The laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed.

(2)  If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift.

(3)  A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.

History:

[39-3420, added 2007, ch. 30, sec. 2, p. 71.]