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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="4-503" title_number="4" title_name="Wills" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to § 4–506 of this subtitle, an anatomical gift may be made during the life of a donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>A donor who is an adult; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A donor who is a minor, if the minor is:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Emancipated; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Authorized under State law to apply for a driver’s license because the donor is at least 15 years and 9 months old;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An agent of a donor, unless a power of attorney for health care or other record prohibits the agent from making an anatomical gift;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A parent of a donor, if the donor is an unemancipated minor; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A guardian of a donor.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A donor may make an anatomical gift:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>By authorizing a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift to be imprinted on the donor’s driver’s license or identification card;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>By will;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>During a terminal illness or an injury of the donor, by any form of communication addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>As provided in subsection (c) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under this section may make a gift by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A donor card or other record signed by the donor or other person making the gift; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Authorizing that a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift be included on a donor registry.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under this section is physically unable to sign a record, the record may be signed by another individual at the direction of the donor or other person and shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the donor or other person; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>State that the record has been signed and witnessed as provided in item (i) of this paragraph.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Revocation, suspension, expiration, or cancellation of a driver’s license or an identification card that indicates an anatomical gift does not invalidate the gift.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An anatomical gift made by will takes effect on the donor’s death whether or not the will is probated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a will that makes an anatomical gift is invalidated after the donor’s death, the anatomical gift does not become invalid.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>On or after July 1, 2022, a person who elects to be a donor may designate any of the following purposes for the anatomical gift:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Research and education; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Transplantation and therapy.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>By July 1, 2022, the organ procurement organization or its designated affiliate shall produce and provide to each Motor Vehicle Administration location educational materials that include definitions of:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Anatomical gift;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Research and education; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Transplantation and therapy.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Each Motor Vehicle Administration location shall prominently display the educational materials and make available the educational materials to prospective donors on request.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>The Motor Vehicle Administration shall adopt regulations by July 1, 2022, to carry out subsections (f) and (g) of this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
