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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="4-507" title_number="4" title_name="Wills" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section and except as prohibited under §§ 4–505 and 4–506 of this subtitle, in accordance with the order of priority listed, a member of one of the following classes of individuals who is reasonably available may make an anatomical gift of a decedent’s body or part for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An agent of the decedent at the time of death who could have made an anatomical gift under § 4–503(b) of this subtitle immediately before the decedent’s death;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The persons who were acting as the guardians of the decedent at the time of the death of the decedent;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The spouse or domestic partner of the decedent;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The adult children of the decedent;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The parents of the decedent;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The adult siblings of the decedent;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>The adult grandchildren of the decedent;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>The grandparents of the decedent;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>An adult who exhibited special care and concern for the decedent; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Another person having the authority to dispose of the body of the decedent.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If there is more than one member of a class listed in subsection (a)(1), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), or (9) of this section entitled to make an anatomical gift, an anatomical gift may be made by a member of the class unless that member or a person to which the gift may pass under § 4–509 of this subtitle knows of an objection by another member of the class.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If an objection to an anatomical gift is known, the gift may be made only by a majority of the members of the class who are reasonably available.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person may not make an anatomical gift if, at the time of the decedent’s death, a person in a prior class under subsection (a) of this section is reasonably available to make or to object to the making of an anatomical gift.</text>
  </level>
</section>
