gift during the donor's lifetime is not necessary to make the
gift valid. If an anatomical gift is indicated on a driver's
license or an identification card, the anatomical gift is not
invalidated by revocation, suspension, expiration or
cancellation of:
(1) the driver's license under 75 Pa.C.S. Ch. 15
(relating to licensing of drivers); or
(2) the identification card by the Department of
Transportation.
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[(d) Designation of person to carry out procedures.--
Notwithstanding section 8616(b) (relating to rights and duties
at death), the donor may designate in his will, card or other
document of gift the surgeon or physician to carry out the
appropriate procedures. In the absence of a designation or if
the designee is not available, the donee or other person
authorized to accept the gift may employ or authorize any
surgeon or physician for the purpose, or, in the case of a gift
of eyes, he may employ or authorize a person who is a funeral
director licensed by the State Board of Funeral Directors, an
eye bank technician or medical student, if the person has
successfully completed a course in eye enucleation approved by
the State Board of Medical Education and Licensure, or an eye
bank technician or medical student trained under a program in
the sterile technique for eye enucleation approved by the State
Board of Medical Education and Licensure to enucleate eyes for
an eye bank for the gift after certification of death by a
physician. A qualified funeral director, eye bank technician or
medical student acting in accordance with the terms of this
subsection shall not have any liability, civil or criminal, for
the eye enucleation.]
(d.1) Reliance.--A person may rely on a document of gift or
amendment thereto as being valid unless that person knows that
it was not validly executed or was revoked.
(e) Consent not necessary.--[If a donor card, donor driver's
license, living will, durable power of attorney or other
document of gift evidencing a gift of organs or tissue has been
executed,]
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a donor's gift of all or
any part of the individual's body, including a designation in
a registry on a driver's license or identification card,
donor card, advance health care directive, will or other
document of gift, may not be revoked by the next-of-kin or
other persons identified in section 8611(b). The consent of
any person [designated in section 8611(b)] at the time of the
donor's death or immediately thereafter is not necessary to
render the gift valid and effective.
(2) An agent, only if expressly authorized in writing in
a power of attorney, advance directive, health care power of
attorney or other document to override the decedent's
instructions on the making of an anatomical gift, may revoke
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