16 DE Code § 2710. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27. Anatomical Gifts and Studies|Subchapter II. Uniform Anatomical Gift Act|§ 2710. Definitions.

§ 2710. Definitions. As used in this subchapter:  (1) “Adult” means an individual who is at least 18 years of age. (2) “Advance health-care directive” means a directive under § 2503 of this title. (3) “Agent” means an individual authorized to make health-care decisions on another's behalf by a power of attorney or an individual expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on another's behalf by any other record signed by the individual giving the authorization. (4) “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. (5) “Decedent” means a deceased individual and includes a stillborn infant or fetus. (6) “Department” means the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services. (7) “Designated requestor” means a hospital employee completing a course offered by the OPO on how to approach potential donor families and request organ and tissue donation. (8) “Document of gift” means a donor card or other record used to make, amend, or revoke an anatomical gift. The term includes a statement or symbol on a driver's license or identification card or in a donor registry. (9) “Donate Life Delaware Registry” means that subset of persons in the Department of Transportation's driver's license and photo identification card database or any expanded or successor database who have elected to include the donor designation on their record. (10) “Donee” means a person authorized to receive an anatomical gift. (11) “Donor” means an individual who makes a gift of all or part of the individual's body. (12) “Donor registry” means a database which contains records of anatomical gifts. The term includes the Donate Life Delaware Registry. (13) “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. (14) “Fund” means the Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Trust Fund. (15) “Hospital” means a hospital licensed, accredited or approved under the laws of any state and includes a hospital operated by the United States government, a state or a subdivision thereof, although not required to be licensed under state laws. (16) “Know” means to have actual knowledge. (17) “Medical examiner” means the Chief Medical Examiner, a Deputy Medical Examiner, an Assistant Medical Examiner, or their designee. (18) “Minor” means an individual who is under 18 years of age. (19) “OPO” means the federally certified organ procurement organization for the State. (20) “Part” includes organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood, other fluids and other portions of a human body, and “part” includes “parts.” (21) “Person” means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, statutory trust, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association or any other legal entity. (22) “Person authorized or obligated to dispose of a decedent's body” means any of the following without regard to order or priority:  a. A medical examiner having jurisdiction over the decedent's body. b. A warden or director of a correctional facility where the decedent was incarcerated. c. An individual who is otherwise authorized or obligated to dispose of a decedent's body. d. An official of an entity that is otherwise authorized or obligated to dispose of a decedent's body. (23) “Physician” or “surgeon” means a physician or surgeon licensed or authorized to practice under the laws of any state. (24) “Prospective donor” means a person who is dead or whose death is imminent and has been determined by the OPO to have a part that could be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education. (25) “Reasonably available” means able to be contacted by the OPO, eye bank or tissue bank through the exercise of reasonable due diligence and willing and able to act in a timely manner consistent with existing medical criteria necessary to make an anatomical gift. (26) “Recipient” means an individual into whose body a decedent's part has been or is intended to be transplanted. (27) “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. (28) “Recovery specialist” means a medical professional licensed by this or another state or technician trained in accordance with federal standards pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 274(b) and nationally accredited standards for human body part removal. (29) “State” includes a state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession and any other area subject to the legislative authority of the United States of America. (30) “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.24 Del. C. 1953, §  1780;  57 Del. Laws, c. 445, §  2;  65 Del. Laws, c. 487, §  3;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  71 Del. Laws, c. 453, §  2;  73 Del. Laws, c. 329, §  58;  80 Del. Laws, c. 182, §  1;