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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67665</law_id><section_number>32.1-291.13</section_number><catch_line>Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Postmortem Examinations and Services</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Anatomical Gifts</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor&#x2019;s lifetime to be effective. <a id="paragraph-245152" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-291.13/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Upon or after an individual&#x2019;s death, a <span class="dictionary">person</span> in <span class="dictionary">possession</span> 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 or refusal by a <span class="dictionary">person</span> authorized to make or <span class="dictionary">object</span> to the making of an anatomical gift with respect to the individual or by a <span class="dictionary">person</span> to which the gift could pass under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Persons that may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift" href="/32.1-291.11/">32.1-291.11</a>. <a id="paragraph-245153" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-291.13/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2007, cc. 92, 907.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
