As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Anatomical gift" means a donation, effective upon or after the death of the donor, of all or part of the human body of the donor.
2. "Bank or storage organization" means a person licensed, accredited, certified, registered, or approved under the laws of any state for the procurement, removal, preservation, storage, or distribution of human bodies or parts.
3. "Decedent" means a deceased individual and includes a stillborn infant or fetus.
4. "Document of gift" means a card signed by an individual donor, a donor's will, or any other written document used by a donor to make an anatomical gift.
5. "Donor" means an individual who makes an anatomical gift.
6. "Enucleator" means an individual who is certified by the department of ophthalmology of the college of medicine of the university of Iowa, or by the eye bank association of America to remove or process eyes or parts of eyes.
7. "Hospital" means a hospital licensed under chapter 135B, or a hospital licensed, accredited, or approved under federal law or the laws of any other state, and includes a hospital operated by the federal government, a state, or a political subdivision of a state, although not required to be licensed under state laws.
8. "Medical examiner" means an individual who is appointed as a medical examiner pursuant to section 331.801 or 691.5.
9. "Organ procurement organization" means an organization that performs or coordinates the performance of retrieving, preserving, or transplanting organs, which maintains a system of locating prospective recipients for available organs, and which is registered with the united network for organ sharing and designated by the United States secretary of health and human services pursuant to 42 C.F.R. § 485, subpt. D.
10. "Part" means organs, tissues, eyes, bones, vessels, whole blood, plasma, blood platelets, blood derivatives, fluid, or any other portion of a human body.
11. "Person" means person as defined in section 4.1.
12. "Physician" or "surgeon" means a physician, surgeon, or osteopathic physician and surgeon, licensed or otherwise authorized to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathy and surgery under the laws of any state.
13. "State" means any state, district, commonwealth, territory, or insular possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
14. "Technician" means an individual who is licensed, certified, or approved by an organ procurement organization or who is certified, or approved by a bank or storage organization to procure, remove, process, preserve, store, or distribute a part.
95 Acts, ch 39, §2
Referred to in § 422.45
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