2021 Code of Alabama
Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.
Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.
Chapter 19 - Dead Bodies.
Article 9 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.
Section 22-19-178 - Law Governing Validity; Choice of Law as to Execution of Document of Gift; Presumption of Validity.
Section 22-19-178
Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity.
(a) A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with:
(1) this article;
(2) the laws of the state or country where it was executed; or
(3) 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.
(b) If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift.
(c) 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of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.
(Act 2008-453, p. 867, §1.)