O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 44-5-159 (2019)
Impact of anatomical gift on an advance directive for health care
✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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If a prospective donor has an advance directive for health care in accordance with Chapter 32 of Title 31 or a declaration signed by a prospective donor, unless it expressly provides to the contrary, measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of an organ for transplantation
or therapy may not be withheld or withdrawn from the prospective donor.
History
(Code 1981, § 44-5-159, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 503, § 1/SB 405.)