2013 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 6B - Jonathan Spradling Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Section 24-6B-19 - Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity. (2007)


NM Stat § 24-6B-19 (2013) What's This?

24-6B-19. Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity. (2007) 
A.   A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with:
(1)   the Jonathan Spradling Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act;
(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 pursuant to 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of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.
History: Laws 2007, ch. 323, § 19.

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