§ 35-5-202 — Definitions

Wyoming § 35-5-202

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 35: Public Health and Safety
• Ch. 5: ANATOMICAL GIFTS AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
• Art. 2: REVISED UNIFORM ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT

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(a) As used in this act:
(i) "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.
(ii) "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;
(iii) "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 act, a fetus;
(iv) "Department" means the department of
transportation;
(v) "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 W.S. 35-5-211;
(vi) "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;
(vii) "Donor" means an individual whose body or part
is the subject of an anatomical gift;
(viii) "Donor registry" means a database that
contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or
revocations of anatomical gifts;
(ix) "Driver's license" means a license or permit
issued by the department to operate a vehicle, whether or not
conditions are attached to the license or permit;
(x) "Eye bank" means a person who 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;
(xi) "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;
(xii) "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;
(xiii) "Identification card" means an identification
card issued by the department;
(xiv) "Know" means to have actual knowledge;
(xv) "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;
(xvi) "Parent" means a parent whose parental rights
have not been terminated;
(xvii) "Part" means an organ, an eye or tissue of a
human being. The term does not include the whole body;
(xviii) "Physician" means an individual authorized to
practice medicine or osteopathy under the law of any state;
(xix) "Procurement organization" means an eye bank,
organ procurement organization or tissue bank;
(xx) "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;
(xxi) "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;
(xxii) "Recipient" means an individual into whose
body a decedent's part has been or is intended to be
transplanted;
(xxiii) "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;
(xxiv) "Refusal" means a record created under W.S.
35-5-207 that expressly states an intent to bar other persons
from making an anatomical gift of an individual's body or part;
(xxv) "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.
(xxvi) "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;
(xxvii) "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;
(xxviii) "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;
(xxix) "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;
(xxx) "Transplant hospital" means a hospital that
furnishes organ transplants and other medical and surgical
specialty services required for the care of transplant patients;
(xxxi) "This act" means W.S. 35-5-201 through