Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 330

FORMERLY

SENATE BILL NO. 470

AN ACT TO AMEND 1783(d), SUBCHAPTER 7, CHAPTER 17, TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE, RELATING TO ANATOMICAL GIFTS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Section 1. Amend §1783 (d), Subchapter 7, Chapter 17, Title 24 of the Delaware Code, by striking therefrom the period at the end of said Section and adding thereto the following sentences which shall read as follows:

"or, in the case of a gift of eyes, he may employ or authorize an undertaker licensed by the State of Delaware who has successfully completed a course in eye enucleation approved by the Medical Examiner of the State of Delaware to enucleate eyes for the gift after certification of death by a physician. A qualified undertaker acting in accordance with the terms of this subsection shall not have any liability, civil or criminal, for the eye enucleation."

Approved May 21, 1974.