The following definitions apply throughout
this chapter:
(1)"Adult" means an individual at least eighteen (18) years of
age.
(2)"Agent" means an individual who is:
(A)authorized to make health care decisions on behalf of
another person by a health care power of attorney under IC 30-5-5-16 or a health care representative under IC 16-36-7; or
(B)expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on behalf
of another person by a document signed by the person.
(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)"Bank" or "storage facility" means a facility licensed,
accredited, or approved under the laws of any state for storage of
human bodies or parts of human bo
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The following definitions apply throughout
this chapter:
(1) "Adult" means an individual at least eighteen (18) years of
age.
(2) "Agent" means an individual who is:
(A) authorized to make health care decisions on behalf of
another person by a health care power of attorney under IC 30-5-5-16 or a health care representative under IC 16-36-7; or
(B) expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on behalf
of another person by a document signed by the person.
(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) "Bank" or "storage facility" means a facility licensed,
accredited, or approved under the laws of any state for storage of
human bodies or parts of human bodies.
(5) "Decedent":
(A) means a deceased individual whose body or body part is or
may be the source of an anatomical gift; and
(B) includes:
(i) a stillborn infant; and
(ii) except as restricted by any other law, a fetus.
(6) "Disinterested witness" means an individual other than a
spouse, child, 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. This term does not include a person to
whom an anatomical gift could pass under section 10 of this
chapter.
(7) "Document of gift" means a donor card or other record used
to make an anatomical gift, including a statement or symbol on:
(A) a driver's license;
(B) an identification card;
(C) a resident license to hunt, fish, or trap; or
(D) a donor registry.
(8) "Donor" means an individual whose body or body part is the
subject of an anatomical gift.
(9) "Donor registry" means:
(A) a data base maintained by:
(i) the bureau of motor vehicles; or
(ii) the equivalent agency in another state;
(B) the Donate Life Indiana Registry maintained by the Indiana
Donation Alliance Foundation; or
(C) a donor registry maintained in another state;
that contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or
revocations of anatomical gifts.
(10) "Driver's license" means a license or permit issued by the
bureau of motor vehicles to operate a vehicle.
(11) "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.
(12) "Guardian" means an individual 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.
(13) "Hospital" means a facility licensed as a hospital under the
laws of any state or a facility operated as a hospital by the United
States, a state, or a subdivision of a state.
(14) "Identification card" means an identification card issued by
the bureau of motor vehicles.
(15) "Minor" means an individual under eighteen (18) 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 an individual whose parental rights have not
been terminated.
(18) "Part" means an organ, an eye, or tissue of a human being.
The term does not mean a whole body.
(19) "Pathologist" means a physician:
(A) certified by the American Board of Pathology; or
(B) holding an unlimited license to practice medicine in Indiana
and acting under the direction of a physician certified by the
American Board of Pathology.
(20) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust,
estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association,
joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental
subdivision, agency, instrumentality, or any other legal or
commercial entity.
(21) "Physician" or "surgeon" means an individual authorized to
practice medicine or osteopathy under the laws of any state.
(22) "Procurement organization" means an eye bank, organ
procurement organization, or tissue bank.
(23) "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 an appropriate refusal.
(24) "Reasonably available" means:
(A) able to be contacted by a procurement organization without
undue effort; and
(B) willing and able to act in a timely manner consistent with
existing medical criteria necessary for the making of an
anatomical gift.
(25) "Recipient" means an individual into whose body a
decedent's part has been or is intended to be transplanted.
(26) "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.
(27) "Refusal" means a record created under section 6 of this
chapter that expressly states the intent to bar another person from
making an anatomical gift of an individual's body or part.
(28) "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.
(29) "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.
(30) "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 eye enucleator.
(31) "Tissue" means a part of the human body other than an organ
or an eye. The term does not include blood or other bodily fluids
unless the blood or bodily fluids are donated for the purpose of
research or education.
(32) "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.
(33) "Transplant hospital" means a hospital that furnishes organ
transplants and other medical and surgical specialty services
required for the care of organ transplant patients.