Colorado § 12-140-102 Definitions

Colorado Statutes

§ 12-140-102 — Definitions

Colorado·Title 12 Professions·Art. Nontransplant Tissue Banks

As used in this article 140, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)Designee means an individual designated by a nontransplant tissue bank registered in accordance with section 12-140-103.

(2)Human remains means all or any portion of the physical remains of a dead human who was born alive.

(3)(a) Nontransplant tissue bank means a person that, for any purpose other than transplantation into a living human being, and with the intent of further distribution, provides or engages in at least one of the following for the storage and distribution of human remains:

(I)Recovery;

(II)Collection;

(III)Acquisition;

(IV)Distribution;

(V)Screening;

(VI)Storage; or

(VII)Arrangement.

(b)Nontransplant tissue bank does not include:

(I)An eye bank, an organ procurement organi

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As used in this article 140, unless the context
otherwise requires:

(1) Designee means an individual designated by a nontransplant tissue
bank registered in accordance with section 12-140-103.

(2) Human remains means all or any portion of the physical remains of a
dead human who was born alive.

(3) (a) Nontransplant tissue bank means a person that, for any purpose
other than transplantation into a living human being, and with the intent of further
distribution, provides or engages in at least one of the following for the storage and
distribution of human remains:

(I) Recovery;

(II) Collection;

(III) Acquisition;

(IV) Distribution;

(V) Screening;

(VI) Storage; or

(VII) Arrangement.

(b) Nontransplant tissue bank does not include:

(I) An eye bank, an organ procurement organization, or a tissue bank, as
those terms are defined in section 15-19-202 (10), (16), and (31), respectively;

(II) A funeral establishment registered in accordance with section 12-135-110;

(III) A crematory registered in accordance with section 12-135-303; or

(IV) An approved medical college, as defined in section 12-240-104 (3), or
similar educational institution that accepts human remains primarily for its own
educational or research purposes.

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Legislative History

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 962, � 1, effective October 1. L. 2024: (3) amended, (HB 24-1254), ch. 241, p. 1595, � 8, effective August 7.