§ 35-1-401 — Definitions

(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Vital records" means records of birth, death,
stillbirth, marriage, divorce and data relating thereto;
(ii) "System of vital records" includes the
registration, collection, preservation, amendment, and
certification of vital records and activities related thereto
including the tabulation, analysis, and publication of
statistical data derived from such records;
(iii) "Filing" means the presentation of a
certificate, report, or other record of a birth, death,
stillbirth, adoption, marriage, or divorce, for registration by
vital records services;
(iv) "Registration" means the acceptance by vital
records services and the incorporation in its official records
of certificates, reports or other records of births, deaths,
stillbirths, adoption, marriages, and divorces;
(v) "Live birth" means the complete expulsion or
extraction from its mother or its gestational carrier of a
fetus, which after such expulsion or extraction, breathes or
shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart,
pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of
voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been
cut or the placenta is attached;
(vi) "Stillbirth" means a birth after twenty (20)
completed weeks gestation in which the child shows no evidence
of life after complete birth;
(vii) "Dead body" means a lifeless human body, or
such severed parts of the human body, or the bones thereof, from
the state of which it reasonably may be concluded that death
occurred;
(viii) "Final disposition" means the burial,
interment, cremation, or other disposition of a dead body or
stillbirth;
(ix) "Person in charge of interment" means any person
who places or causes to be placed a deceased, stillbirth, or
dead body, or after cremation the ashes thereof, in the earth, a
grave, tomb, vault, urn or other receptacle, either in a
cemetery or at any other place, or otherwise disposes of a body;
(x) "Physician" means a person authorized or licensed
to practice medicine as provided in W.S. 33-26-101 through
33-26-601;
(xi) "Institution" means any establishment, public or
private, which provides inpatient medical, surgical or
diagnostic care or treatment, or nursing, custodial or
domiciliary care to two (2) or more unrelated individuals, or to
which persons are committed by law;
(xii) "Advanced practice registered nurse" means as
provided in W.S. 33-21-120(a)(i);
(xiii) "Physician assistant" means as provided in
W.S. 33-26-501(a)(iii);
(xiv) "Gestational agreement" means a written,
notarized agreement between two (2) intended parents and a
gestational carrier where:
(A) The gestational carrier agrees to pregnancy
by means of assisted reproduction;
(B) The gestational carrier, and her spouse if
she is married, agree to relinquish all rights and duties as the
parent of any child that is delivered from the gestational
carrier;
(C) The agreement specifies that the intended
parents shall become the parents of the child;
(D) All parties to the agreement are twenty-one
(21) years of age or older;
(E) The intended parents have been residents of
the state of Wyoming for not less than one (1) year immediately
preceding the date of the gestational agreement;
(F) The agreement is filed with the state
registrar of vital records. Any agreement filed under this
subparagraph shall be sealed and placed in a special file and
may be opened only upon order of a court of competent
jurisdiction or as otherwise provided by law;
(G) Compensation is limited to expenses related
to prenatal care, delivery of the child and any other costs
including the cost of lost opportunity that are directly
connected to the pregnancy.
(xv) "Gestational carrier" means a woman twenty-one
(21) years of age or older who gives birth to a child under a
gestational agreement;
(xvi) "Intended parents" means two (2) persons who
enter into a gestational agreement with a gestational carrier
for the birth of a child for which the two (2) persons shall
assume paternity or maternity.