LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Starting this week, Kentucky joins 46 states that promote the organ donor program with an icon on driver's licenses. Circuit court clerks' offices in Kentucky already ask everyone getting licenses if they want to be on the donor registry, but only 35% of residents have said yes.
![]() By CHRIS J. MANHEIM
UNDER the 'Uniform Anatomical GiftAct' of 1975, the Secretary of State's Officewas given the responsibility to distribute'Organ Donor' stickers to drivers who havemade previous arrangements with a donororganization. The sticker is then affixed tothe upper right hand corner of the back ofthe drivers license. The only purpose of thesticker is to alert authorities that the driver isalso carrying an Anatomical Gift Card,These cards are provided by the following:
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Kidney Foundation of Illinois, Inc.
127 North Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 60602 Telephone: 312/263-2140
Lions of Illinois
Eye Donor Registry 1515 North Harlem Avenue Oak Park, Illinois 60302 Telephone: 312/383-1900
Illinois Society for the Prevention of
Blindness, and Illinois Eye Bank 53 West Jackson Blvd. - Room 1435 Chicago, Illinois 60604 Telephone: 312/922-8710
Persons wishing to donate their eyes orkidneys should contact one of these associations or any other of their choice. Theprogram's purpose is to get the organs to abank before they become oxygen starved,The drivers license, which is always examined after a fatal accident, is a logical way toaccomplish this.
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Cards and stickers may be obtained fromeither a local Drivers License Facility orfrom one of the organizations. These cardsmust be signed by the donor and, in somecases, by witnesses. The actual donation'smade 10 a bank of the individual's choiceand does not involve the Office of theSecretary of State.
CHRIS J.MANHEIMCurrently serving a Sangamon StateUniversity Fellowship on the legislative stallof the Illinois Senate, he had previouslyworked in the Administrative Departmentof Drivers Services in the Secretary ofState's Office.
6/April 1977/Illinois Issues
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