1. This chapter may be cited as the "Newborn Safe Haven Act".
2. For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
a. "Institutional health facility" means a hospital as defined in section 135B.1, including a facility providing medical or health services that is open twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week and is a hospital emergency room, or a health care facility as defined in section 135C.1.
b. "Newborn infant" means a child who is, or who appears to be, fourteen days of age or younger.
2001 Acts, ch 67, §1, 13
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