In this part 2:
(1) Adult means an individual who is at least eighteen years of age.
(2) Agent means an individual:
(A) Authorized to make health-care decisions on the principal's behalf by a
power of attorney for health care; or
(B) Expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal's behalf
by any other record signed by the principal.
(3) Anatomical gift means a donation of all or part of a human body, to take
effect after the donor's death, for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research,
or education.
(4) Decedent means a deceased individual whose body or part is or may be
the source of an anatomical gift. The term includes a stillborn infant and, subject to
restrictions imposed by law other than this part 2, a fetus.
(5) Disinterested witness means a witness other than the spouse, child,
parent, sibling, grandchild, grandparent, or guardian of the individual who makes,
amends, revokes, or refuses to make an anatomical gift, or another adult who
exhibited special care and concern for the individual. The term does not include a
person to which an anatomical gift could pass under section 15-19-211.
(6) Document of gift means a donor card or other record used to make an
anatomical gift. The term includes a statement or symbol on a driver's license,
identification card, or donor registry.
(7) Donor means an individual whose body or part is the subject of an
anatomical gift.
(8) Donor registry means a database that contains records of anatomical
gifts and amendments to or revocations of anatomical gifts.
(9) Driver's license means a license or permit issued by the department of
revenue to operate a vehicle, whether or not conditions are attached to the license
or permit.
(10) Eye bank means a person that is licensed, accredited, or regulated
under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing,
storage, or distribution of human eyes or portions of human eyes.
(11) Guardian means a person appointed by a court to make decisions
regarding the support, care, education, health, or welfare of an individual. The term
does not include a guardian ad litem.
(12) Hospital means a facility licensed as a hospital under the law of any
state or a facility operated as a hospital by the United States, a state, or a
subdivision of a state.
(13) Identification card means an identification card issued by the
department of revenue or the department's agent.
(14) Know means to have actual knowledge.
(15) Minor means an individual who is under eighteen years of age.
(16) Organ procurement organization means a person designated by the
secretary of the United States department of health and human services as an
organ procurement organization.
(17) Parent means a parent whose parental rights have not been
terminated.
(18) Part means an organ, an eye, or tissue of a human being. The term
does not include the whole body.
(19) Person means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust,
partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation,
government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other
legal or commercial entity.
(20) Physician means an individual authorized to practice medicine or
osteopathy under the law of any state.
(21) Procurement organization means an eye bank, organ procurement
organization, or tissue bank.
(22) Prospective donor means an individual who is dead or near death and
has been determined by a procurement organization to have a part that could be
medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education. The term
does not include an individual who has made a refusal.
(23) Reasonably available means able to be contacted by a procurement
organization without undue effort and willing and able to act in a timely manner
consistent with existing medical criteria necessary for the making of an anatomical
gift.
(24) Recipient means an individual into whose body a decedent's part has
been or is intended to be transplanted.
(25) Record means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or
that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable
form.
(26) Refusal means a record created under section 15-19-207 that
expressly states an intent to bar other persons from making an anatomical gift of
an individual's body or part.
(27) Sign means, with the present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
(A) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or
(B) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol,
sound, or process.
(28) State means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession
subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
(29) Technician means an individual determined to be qualified to remove
or process parts by an appropriate organization that is licensed, accredited, or
regulated under federal or state law. The term includes an enucleator.
(30) Tissue means a portion of the human body other than an organ or an
eye. The term does not include blood unless the blood is donated for the purpose of
research or education.
(31) Tissue bank means a person that is licensed, accredited, or regulated
under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing,
storage, or distribution of tissue.
(32) Transplant hospital means a hospital that furnishes organ transplants
and other medical and surgical specialty services required for the care of
transplant patients.