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10 GCA § 83102

Persons Who May Execute an Anatomical Gift

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 10 — Health and Safety
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(a)Any individual of sound mind and eighteen

(18)years of age or more may give all or any part of his body for any purpose specified in '83103 the gift to take effect upon death.

(b)Any of the following persons, in order of priority stated, when persons in prior classes are not available at the time of death, and in the absence of actual notice of contrary indications by the decedent or actual notice of opposition by the member of the same or a prior class, may give all or any part of the decedent's body for any purpose specified in '83103:

(1)The spouse;

(2)An adult son or daughter;

(3)Either parent;

(4)An adult brother or sister;

(5)A guardian of the person of the decedent at the time of his death; and

(6)Any other person authorized or under obligation to dispose of the body.

(c)If the donee has actual notice of contrary indications by the decedent or that a gift by a member of a class is opposed by a member of the same or a prior class, the donee shall not accept the gift. The persons authorized by Subsection

(b)may make the gift after or immediately before death.

(d)A gift of all or part of a body authorizes any examination necessary to assure medical acceptability of the gift for the purposes intended.

(e)The rights of the donee created by the gift are paramount to the rights of others except as provided for by '83107(d).

Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.