2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 43 - DISPOSITIONS OF HUMAN BODIES AND PARTS; POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS
Section 44-43-360. Delivery of document of gift upon or after individual's death; examination and copying.
(A) A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor's lifetime to be effective.
(B) Upon or after an individual's death, a person in possession of a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift with respect to the individual shall allow examination and copying of the document of gift or refusal by a person authorized to make or object to the making of an anatomical gift with respect to the individual or by a person to which the gift could pass under Section 44-43-350.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 32-715; 1969 (56) 625; 2006 Act No. 334, Section 1, eff June 2, 2006; 2009 Act No. 4, Section 2, eff May 6, 2009.
Effect of Amendment
The 2006 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
The 2009 amendment rewrote this section.
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