Source: https://wearabledocs.com/states/florida Anatomical gift act · Florida # How to Refuse Organ Donation in Florida Florida does not set out a form your refusal has to take, and it has no section headed refusal. What the law turns on is notice: a family member may donate only where there is no actual notice that you indicated otherwise, and a hospital or other recipient with actual notice that you indicated otherwise may not accept the gift. Florida also counts a signed document found on or about you as a way of changing or taking back a gift. Nothing has to be filed or witnessed in Florida. What gives a refusal its effect here is that someone has actual notice of it, which is why a refusal has to be written down somewhere it will be found. Fla. Stat. §§ 765.512, 765.516. What Florida asks ## What you need to make a refusal in Florida **Act** 1968 act **Enforcement** A person who knows of your refusal may not make the gift, and a donee with notice of it may not accept. **Signing it yourself** No formalities are prescribed for making one. **If someone signs at your direction** The same, whoever signs. **Notary** Its statute does not say. **Florida law** Fla. Stat. §§ 765.512, 765.516 **Statute read** 2026-09-02 Persons who may make an anatomical gift · Donor amendment or revocation of anatomical gift ## The statute itself Quoted from Florida’s enacted code, in full and unedited. How an objection operates (3), (4) > § 765.512(3): 'If the decedent has not made an anatomical gift or designated a health surrogate, a member of one of the classes of persons listed below, in the order of priority listed and in the absence of actual notice of contrary indications by the decedent or actual notice of opposition by a member of a prior class, may give all or any part of the decedent's body ....' § 765.512(4): 'A donee may not accept an anatomical gift if the donee has actual notice of contrary indications by the donor or actual notice that an anatomical gift by a member of a class is opposed by a member of a prior class.' Fla. Stat. §§ 765.512(1)(b), (3), (4) What cannot be overridden here is a GIFT, not a refusal (§ 765.512(1)(b)) > An anatomical gift made by a qualified donor and not revoked by the donor, as provided in s. 765.516, is irrevocable after the donor's death. A family member, guardian, representative ad litem, or health care surrogate may not modify, deny, or prevent a donor's wish or intent to make an anatomical gift after the donor's death. Fla. Stat. §§ 765.512(1)(b), (3), (4) A card carried on you, in the statute (1)(d) > A donor may amend the terms of or revoke an anatomical gift by: ... (d) A signed document found on or about the donor's person. Fla. Stat. § 765.516(1)(d) [Look up another state](https://wearabledocs.com/states) ## One document, not fifty forms. You tell us your state, we show you what it asks for before you sign, and your page names the state you signed in. Your signed document is what carries legal weight. We host it and make it findable. [See what it costs](https://wearabledocs.com/pricing)