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...In applying and construing the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act enacted in sections 2108.01 to 2108.29 of the Revised Code, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

...This section and sections 2108.01 to 2108.28 of the Revised Code modify, limit, and supersede the "Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act," 15 U.S.C. 7001 et seq., but do not modify, limit, or supersede section 101(a) of that act, 15 U.S.C. 7001, or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in division 103(b) of that act, 15 U.S.C. 7003(b). Nothing in this section,...

...Subject to the prohibition in section 2108.18 of the Revised Code, the procuring, furnishing, donating, processing, distributing, or using of human whole blood, plasma, blood products, blood derivatives, and products, corneas, bones, organs, or other human tissue except hair, for the purpose of injecting, transfusing, or transplanting the fluid or body part in another human body, is considered for all purp...

...Any person seventeen years of age or older may, without consent of the person's parent or guardian, donate blood in a voluntary blood program that is not operated for profit. Any person sixteen years of age but less than seventeen years of age may, with consent of the person's parent or guardian, donate blood in a voluntary blood program that is not operated for profit. Before obtaining blood donations from s...

...The bureau of motor vehicles shall maintain a toll-free telephone number available twenty-four hours a day that the public may use to obtain information on becoming an organ, tissue, or eye donor as provided in section 2108.05 of the Revised Code. The bureau of motor vehicles shall pay the costs of maintaining the toll-free telephone number.

...(A) The bureau of motor vehicles, registrar of motor vehicles, deputy registrars of motor vehicles, and agents and employees of the bureau of motor vehicles are not liable for damages in any civil action or subject to prosecution in a criminal proceeding for acting, attempting to act, or failing to act in accordance with section 2108.23, 2108.32, or 4501.024 of the Revised Code, unless the act, attempt, or omission w...

... (6) Cooperation with the Ohio Supreme Court, Ohio State Bar Association, and law schools of this state to more effectively educate attorneys about the donation of anatomical gifts and to encourage them to assist their clients in donating anatomical gifts through anatomical gift declarations, durable powers of attorney for health care, and any other appropriate means; (7) Cooperation with the state medical board, ...

...(A) There is hereby created within the department of health the second chance trust fund advisory committee, consisting of eleven members. The members shall include the following: (1) One representative of each of the following appointed by the director of health: (a) An Ohio organ procurement organization that is a member of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network; (b) An Ohio tissue bank that is ...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 2108.37 and 2108.38 of the Revised Code: (1) "Auxiliary aid or service" means an aid or service that is used to provide information to an individual with a cognitive, developmental, intellectual, neurological, or physical disability and is available in a format or manner that allows the individual to easily understand the information. An auxiliary aid or service may include t...

...n. The action shall be commenced in the court of common pleas of the county in which the violation occurred or is occurring. (B) In an action commenced under this section, the court shall schedule a hearing as soon as practicable and shall apply the same standards when rendering judgment as would be applied in an action brought in federal court under the "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990," 42 U.S.C. 12101 e...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Covered person" means a policyholder, subscriber, enrollee, member, or individual covered by a health benefit plan. (2) "Health benefit plan" means a policy, contract, certificate, or agreement offered by a health plan issuer to provide, deliver, arrange for, pay for, or reimburse any of the costs of health care services, including benefit plans marketed in the individual or grou...

...An individual is dead if the individual has sustained either irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or irreversible cessation of all functions of the brain, including the brain stem, as determined in accordance with accepted medical standards. If the respiratory and circulatory functions of a person are being artificially sustained, under accepted medical standards a determination...

...(A) Subject to section 2108.521 of the Revised Code, an autopsy or post-mortem examination may be performed upon the body of a deceased person by a licensed physician or surgeon if consent has been given by the person who has the right of disposition under section 2108.70 or 2108.81 of the Revised Code. (B) Consent to an autopsy or post-mortem examination given under this section may be revoked only by the person ex...

...Any licensed physician or surgeon who, in good faith and acting in reliance upon an instrument of consent for an autopsy or post-mortem examination executed under section 2108.50 of the Revised Code and without actual knowledge of revocation of that consent, performs an autopsy or post-mortem examination is not liable in a civil or criminal action brought against the licensed physician or surgeon for that act.

...The requirements of section 2108.50 of the Revised Code do not apply to a post-mortem or other examination performed under sections 313.01 to 313.22 of the Revised Code, or to medical, surgical, and anatomical study performed under sections 1713.34 to 1713.42 of the Revised Code.

...t or the board may file a petition in a court of common pleas seeking an order authorizing an autopsy or post-mortem examination under this section. (B) Upon the filing of a petition under division (A) of this section, the court may conduct, but is not required to conduct, a hearing on the petition. The court may determine whether to grant the petition without a hearing. The department or board, and all other intere...

...(A) As used in this section and sections 2108.62 and 2108.63 of the Revised Code: (1) "Health care institution" means a hospital registered as such under section 3701.07 of the Revised Code or a freestanding birthing center. (2) "Health care professional" means a physician authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery; a registered nurse, ...

...(A) The department of health, on its internet web site, shall make available to health care professionals printable publications that can be downloaded containing standardized, objective information about umbilical cord blood banking that is sufficient to allow a pregnant woman to make an informed decision about whether to participate in an umbilical cord blood banking program. The publications shall include al...

...A health care professional or health care institution is not liable for damages in a civil action, subject to prosecution in a criminal proceeding, or subject to disciplinary action by the state medical board or board of nursing for acting in good faith pursuant to section 2108.61 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this section and sections 2108.71 to 2108.90 of the Revised Code: (1) "Adult" means an individual who is eighteen years of age or older. (2) "Declarant" means an adult who has executed a written declaration described in division (B) of this section. (3) "Representative" means an adult or a group of adults, collectively, to whom a declarant has assigned the right of disposition. (4) "Right of dispos...

...The assignment or reassignment of a right of disposition by a declarant under section 2108.70 of the Revised Code vests in a representative or a successor representative at the time of the declarant's death.

...(A) The written declaration described in section 2108.70 of the Revised Code shall include all of the following: (1) The declarant's legal name and present address; (2) A statement that the declarant, an adult being of sound mind, willfully and voluntarily appoints a representative to have the declarant's right of disposition for the declarant's body upon the declarant's death; (3) A statement that all decision...

...A written declaration executed by a declarant under section 2108.70 of the Revised Code shall be signed and dated by the declarant in the presence of one of the following: (A) A notary public who shall make the certification described in section 147.53 of the Revised Code. (B) Two witnesses who are adults and who are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the declarant. (C) If the written declaration ...

...A declarant who executes a written declaration in accordance with section 2108.73 of the Revised Code warrants the truthfulness of the entire content of the declaration.

... (1) The person dies. (2) A probate court declares or determines that the person is incompetent. (3) The person resigns or declines to exercise the right as described in section 2108.88 of the Revised Code. (4) The person fails to exercise the right within forty-eight hours after notification of the declarant's or deceased person's death or, if there is no notification, within seventy-two hours of either of t...