2007 Minnesota Statutes

525A.08 PRECLUSIVE EFFECT OF ANATOMICAL GIFT, AMENDMENT, OR
REVOCATION.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (g) and subject to paragraph (f), in the absence
of an express, contrary indication by the donor, a person other than the donor is barred from
making, amending, or revoking an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part if the donor made
an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 525A.05 or an amendment to an
anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 525A.06. An anatomical gift made in
a will, a designation on a driver's license or identification card, or a health care directive under
chapter 145C, and not revoked, establishes the intent of the person making the designation and
may not be overridden by any other person.
(b) A donor's revocation of an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section
525A.06 is not a refusal and does not bar another person specified in section 525A.04 or 525A.09
from making an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 525A.05 or 525A.10.
(c) If a person other than the donor makes an unrevoked anatomical gift of the donor's
body or part under section 525A.05 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body
or part under section 525A.06, another person may not make, amend, or revoke the gift of the
donor's body or part under section 525A.10.
(d) A revocation of an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part under section 525A.06 by a
person other than the donor does not bar another person specified in section 525A.09 from making
an anatomical gift of the body or part under section 525A.05 or 525A.10.
(e) In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized
to make an anatomical gift under section 525A.04, an anatomical gift of a part is neither a refusal
to give another part nor a limitation on the making of an anatomical gift of another part at a later
time by the donor or another person.
(f) In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized
to make an anatomical gift under section 525A.04, an anatomical gift of a part for one or more
of the purposes set forth in section 525A.04 is not a limitation on the making of an anatomical
gift of the part for any of the other purposes by the donor or any other person under section
525A.05 or 525A.10.
(g) If a donor who is an unemancipated minor dies, a parent of the donor who is reasonably
available may revoke or amend an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part.
(h) If an unemancipated minor who signed a refusal dies, a parent of the minor who is
reasonably available may revoke the minor's refusal.
History: 2007 c 120 art 1 s 8