Section 24-6B-19 - Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity.

24-6B-19. Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity.

A.     A document of gift is valid if executed in accordance with:

(1)     the Jonathan Spradling Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act;

(2)     the laws of the state or country where it was executed; or

(3)     the laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed.

B.     If a document of gift is valid pursuant to this section, the law of this state governs the interpretation of the document of gift. 

C.     A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.