As used in this chapter, the term: “Department” means the Department of Community Health. “Eye bank” means a nonprofit facility which is maintained and operated for the extraction, removal, care, storage, preservation, and use of human eyes or parts thereof for purposes of sight preservation or restoration, medical education, instruction pertaining to sight preservation or […]
Any donation of a person’s eyes or any part thereof shall be made in accordance with Article 6 of Chapter 5 of Title 44, the “Georgia Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.” History. Ga. L. 1961, p. 582, §§ 3, 4; Code 1933, §§ 88-2003, 88-2004, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. […]
Any facility, hospital, or any medical school in conjunction with the department or school of ophthalmology of such medical school, alone or in further conjunction with other charitable organizations, may establish and maintain an eye bank in, under, or in affiliation with such hospital or medical school upon approval for the establishment of the eye […]
The department is empowered to approve or disapprove the establishment of an eye bank by any group desiring to establish one in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the department; to exercise such control, inspection, and supervision of established eye banks as the department determines to be proper; and to terminate, for good cause, […]
Upon the death of any donor, the persons holding a donor’s unrevoked instrument of donation and maintaining and operating the donee eye bank may authorize any physician, or any embalmer licensed under Article 1 of Chapter 18 of Title 43, as now or hereafter amended, who has completed a course of training in eye extraction […]
In no event shall any donor or donor’s estate incur any liability for any expense connected with or resulting from the donation, extraction, removal, care, preservation, storage, or use of such donor’s eyes or parts thereof. History. Ga. L. 1961, p. 582, § 6; Code 1933, § 88-2006, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, […]
Nothing in this chapter shall affect, interfere with, or change presently existing methods of the medical or scientific operation, treatment, examination, or instruction pertaining to the eyes of human beings as the same is now carried on in the hospitals or under the medical schools of this state. History. Ga. L. 1961, p. 582, § […]
It shall be unlawful: For any person to sell either his eyes or any parts thereof or the eyes or any parts thereof of another person or to receive any remuneration for the giving of a human eye or any part thereof; For the person or persons operating and maintaining any eye bank to sell […]
