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...If a procurement organization refuses to accept an anatomical gift of a part from a decedent whose body is under the jurisdiction of a coroner, the organization shall explain to the coroner, in writing, the organization's reasons for not accepting the part.

...If the coroner or the coroner's designee allows recovery of a part under section 2108.263, 2108.264, 2108.265, or 2108.266 of the Revised Code, the procurement organization shall, on the coroner's request, cooperate with the coroner in any documentation of injuries and the preservation and collection of evidence prior to and during the recovery of the part and shall provide the coroner with a record de...

...If a coroner or a coroner's designee attends a removal procedure under section 2108.266 of the Revised Code, on request of the coroner or coroner's designee the procurement organization requesting the recovery of the organ shall reimburse the office of the coroner for the additional costs incurred in attending the removal procedure. Any reimbursement made under this section shall be applied directly to,...

...Any recovery or removal procedure conducted under section 2108.263, 2108.264, 2108.265, or 2108.266 of the Revised Code shall be conducted within a period compatible with the preservation of parts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education.

...A coroner or coroner's designee shall not be subject to liability in tort or other civil action for denying recovery of a part from a decedent whose body is under the jurisdiction of the coroner.

...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...

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the second chance trust fund. The fund shall consist of voluntary contributions deposited as provided in sections 4501.028 and 4503.721 of the Revised Code. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. (B) The director of health shall use the money in the fund only for the following purposes: (1) Development and implementation of a campaign ...

...(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 ...

...eral law, including the federal "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996," 42 U.S.C. 1320d et seq. and any regulations promulgated by the United States department of health and human services to implement the act. (2) "Covered entity" means any of the following: (a) A licensed health professional as defined in section 3721.21 of the Revised Code; (b) A hospital registered under section 3701.07 ...

...(A) Whenever it appears that a covered entity has violated or is violating section 2108.36 of the Revised Code, the affected individual may commence a civil action for injunctive and other equitable relief against the covered entity for purposes of enforcing compliance with that section. The action shall be commenced in the court of common pleas of the county in which the violation occurred or is occurring. (B) ...

...age issued as a supplement to liability insurance; insurance arising out of workers' compensation or similar law; automobile medical payment insurance; or insurance under which benefits are payable with or without regard to fault and which is statutorily required to be contained in any liability insurance policy or equivalent self-insurance; a medicare supplement policy of insurance, as defined by the superintendent ...

...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.

...(A) If a person with a developmental disability dies, if the department of developmental disabilities or a county board of developmental disabilities has a good faith reason to believe that the deceased person's death occurred under suspicious circumstances, if the coroner was apprised of the circumstances of the death, and if the coroner after being so apprised of the circumstances declines to conduct an autopsy, th...

...(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...