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755 ILCS 50/5-25

(755 ILCS 50/5-25)

Sec. 5-25. Notification; authorization.

(a) Each hospital in this State shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts.

(b) Hospitals shall proceed in accordance
with the applicable
requirements of 42 CFR 482.45 or any successor provisions of federal statute or
regulation, as may
be amended from time to time, with regard to collaboration with procurement organizations to facilitate organ, tissue, and eye donation.

In making a request for organ or tissue donation, the hospital or the
hospital's
federally designated organ procurement organization or tissue bank shall request any
of the
 persons, in the order of priority stated in items (1) through (11)
below, when persons
in prior classes are not available and in the absence of (i) actual notice of
contrary intentions
by the decedent, (ii) actual notice of opposition by any member within the same
priority class,
and (iii) reason to believe that an anatomical gift is contrary to the
decedent's religious beliefs,
to authorize the gift of all or any part of the decedent's body for any
purpose specified in Section 5-12:

(1) an individual acting as the decedent's agent

under a power of attorney for health care;

(2) the guardian of the person of the decedent;
(3) the spouse or civil union partner of the

decedent;

        (4) an adult child of the decedent;
        (5) a parent of the decedent;
        (6) an adult sibling of the decedent;
        (7) an adult grandchild of the decedent;
        (8) a grandparent of the decedent;
        (9) a close friend of the decedent;
        (10) the guardian of the estate of the decedent; and

(11) any other person authorized or under legal

obligation to dispose of the body.

(c) (Blank).

(d) (Blank).

(Source: P.A. 98-172, eff. 1-1-14.)