2000 Minnesota Statutes

     525.9221 Examination, autopsy, applicable law, liability.

    (a) An anatomical gift authorizes any reasonable 
 examination necessary to assure medical acceptability of the 
 gift for the purposes intended. 

    (b) The provisions of sections 525.921 to 525.9224 are 
 subject to the laws of this state governing autopsies. 

    (c) A hospital, physician, surgeon, coroner, medical 
 examiner, local public health officer, enucleator, technician, 
 or other person, who acts in accordance with sections 525.921 to 
 525.9224 or with the applicable anatomical gift law of another 
 state or a foreign country or attempts in good faith to do so is 
 not liable for that act in a civil action or criminal proceeding.

    (d) An individual who makes an anatomical gift pursuant to 
 section 525.9211 or 525.9212, and the individual's estate are 
 not liable for any injury or damage that may result from the 
 making or the use of the anatomical gift. 

    (e) The provision or use of any part of a human body, 
 including blood, blood components, bone marrow, or solid organs 
 from living donors, for the purpose of injection, transfusion, 
 or transplantation in the human body is the rendition of a 
 health care service by each person participating in the 
 provision or use and is not a sale of goods, as that term is 
 defined in section 336.2-105, paragraph (1), or a sale of a 
 product. 

    HIST: 1991 c 202 s 37; 1993 c 13 art 1 s 46; 1993 c 256 s 1