Guam § 83102 - Persons Who May Execute an Anatomical Gift.

§ 83102. Persons Who May Execute an Anatomical Gift.

(a) Any individual of sound mind and eighteen (18) years of age or

more may give all or any part of his body for any purpose specified in

'83103 the gift to take effect upon death.

(b) Any of the following persons, in order of priority stated, when

persons in prior classes are not available at the time of death, and in the

absence of actual notice of contrary indications by the decedent or actual

notice of opposition by the member of the same or a prior class, may give

all or any part of the decedent's body for any purpose specified in '83103:

(1) The spouse;

(2) An adult son or daughter;

(3) Either parent;

(4) An adult brother or sister;

(5) A guardian of the person of the decedent at the time of his

death; and

(6) Any other person authorized or under obligation to dispose

of

the body.

(c) If the donee has actual notice of contrary indications by the

decedent or that a gift by a member of a class is opposed by a member of

the same or a prior class, the donee shall not accept the gift. The persons

authorized by Subsection (b) may make the gift after or immediately before

death.

(d) A gift of all or part of a body authorizes any examination necessary

to assure medical acceptability of the gift for the purposes intended.

(e) The rights of the donee created by the gift are paramount to the

rights of others except as provided for by '83107(d).