1. Any individual of sound mind and eighteen years of age or more may give all or any part of the individual's body for any purposes specified in section 142A.3, the gift to take effect upon death.
2. 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 a member of the same or a prior class, may give all or any part of the decedent's body for any purposes specified in section 142A.3:
a. The spouse.
b. An adult son or daughter.
c. Either parent.
d. An adult brother or sister.
e. A guardian of the person of the decedent at the time of the decedent's death.
f. Any other person authorized or under obligation to dispose of the body.
The persons authorized by this subsection may make the gift after death or immediately before death.
3. 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.
4. A gift of all or part of a body authorizes any examination necessary to assure medical acceptability of the gift for the purposes intended.
5. The rights of the donee created by the gift are paramount to the rights of others except as provided by section 142A.7, subsection 4.
[C58, 62, 66, § 142.12; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 142A.2]
Referred to in § 142A.4
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