Sec. 13.52.290. Severability.
If a provision of this chapter, or the application of this chapter to a person or circumstance is held invalid, including being held unconstitutional, the invalidity does not affect the other provisions or applications of this chapter that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.
Sec. 13.52.300. Optional form.
The following sample form may be used to create an advance health care directive. The other sections of this chapter govern the effect of this or any other writing used to create an advance health care directive. This form may be duplicated. This form may be modified to suit the needs of the person, or […]
Sec. 13.52.390. Definitions.
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) “advance health care directive” means an individual instruction or a durable power of attorney for health care; (2) “advanced practice registered nurse” has the meaning given in AS 08.68.850; (3) “agent” means an individual designated in a durable power of attorney for health care to make […]
Sec. 13.52.395. Short title.
This chapter may be cited as the Health Care Decisions Act.
Sec. 13.52.203. Manner of making, amending, or revoking anatomical gift of decedent’s body or part.
(a) Notwithstanding AS 13.52.020, a person authorized to make an anatomical gift under AS 13.52.197 may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by the person making the gift or by that person’s oral communication that is electronically recorded or is contemporaneously reduced to a record and signed by the individual receiving […]
Sec. 13.52.207. Persons who may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift.
(a) An anatomical gift may be made to the following persons named in the document of gift: (1) a hospital, an accredited medical school, a dental school, a college, a university, an organ procurement organization, or another appropriate person, for research or education; (2) subject to (b) of this section, an individual designated by the […]
Sec. 13.52.213. Search and notification.
(a) The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the person reasonably believes is dead or near death for a document of gift or other information identifying the individual as a donor or as an individual who made a refusal: (1) a law enforcement officer, a firefighter, a paramedic, or another […]
Sec. 13.52.217. Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine.
(a) A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor’s lifetime to be effective. (b) On or after an individual’s death, a person in possession of a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift with respect to the individual shall allow examination and copying of the document of gift […]
Sec. 13.52.223. Rights and duties of procurement organization and others.
(a) When a hospital refers an individual at or near death to a procurement organization, the organization shall make a reasonable search of the records of the department and a donor registry. (b) A procurement organization shall be allowed reasonable access to information in the records of the department to ascertain whether an individual at […]
Sec. 13.52.227. Coordination of procurement and use.
A hospital in this state shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts.