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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1.“Adult” means a person who is married or who is eighteen years of age or older.
2.“Adult day services program” means adult day services program as defined in section
231D.1.
3.“Assisted living program” means an assisted living program under chapter 231C.
4.“Ceremony” means a formal act or set of formal acts established by custom or authority
to commemorate a decedent.
5.“Child” means a son or daughter of a person, whether by birth or adoption.
6.“Decedent” means a deceased adult.
7.“Declarant” means a competent adult who executes a declaration pursuant to this
chapter.
8.“Declaration” means a written instrument that is executed by a declarant in accordance
with the requirements of this chapter, and that names a desig
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Adult” means a person who is married or who is eighteen years of age or older.
2. “Adult day services program” means adult day services program as defined in section
231D.1.
3. “Assisted living program” means an assisted living program under chapter 231C.
4. “Ceremony” means a formal act or set of formal acts established by custom or authority
to commemorate a decedent.
5. “Child” means a son or daughter of a person, whether by birth or adoption.
6. “Decedent” means a deceased adult.
7. “Declarant” means a competent adult who executes a declaration pursuant to this
chapter.
8. “Declaration” means a written instrument that is executed by a declarant in accordance
with the requirements of this chapter, and that names a designee who shall have the sole
responsibility and discretion for making decisions concerning the final disposition of the
declarant’s remains and the ceremonies planned after the declarant’s death.
9. “Designee” means a competent adult designated under a declaration who shall have the
sole responsibility and discretion for making decisions concerning the final disposition of the
declarant’s remains and the ceremonies planned after the declarant’s death.
10. “Elder group home” means elder group home as defined in section 231B.1.
11. “Final disposition” means the burial, interment, cremation, removal from the state, or
other disposition of remains.
12. “Health care facility” means health care facility as defined in section 135C.1.
13. “Health care provider” means health care provider as defined in section 144A.2.
14. “Hospital” means hospital as defined in section 135B.1.
15. “Interested person” means a decedent’s spouse, parent, grandparent, adult child, adult
sibling, adult grandchild, or a designee.
16. “Licensed hospice program” means a licensed hospice program as defined in section
135J.1.
17. “Reasonable under the circumstances” means consideration of what is appropriate
in relation to the declarant’s finances, cultural or family customs, and religious or spiritual
beliefs. “Reasonableunderthecircumstances”mayincludebutisnotlimitedtoconsideration
of the declarant’s preneed funeral, burial, or cremation plan, and known or reasonably
ascertainable creditors of the declarant.
18. “Remains” means the body or cremated remains of a decedent.
19. a. “Third party” means a person who is requested to dispose of remains by an
adult with the right to dispose of a decedent’s remains under section 144C.5 or assist with
arrangements for ceremonies planned after the declarant’s death.
b. “Third party” includes but is not limited to a funeral director, funeral establishment,
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cremation establishment, cemetery, the state medical examiner, or a county medical
examiner.