Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 27 > Subchapter II - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

• Adult: means an individual who is at least 18 years of age. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Advance health-care directive: means a directive under § 2503 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• 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. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Amusement ride: means any mechanical device or devices that carry or convey passengers along, around or over a fixed or restricted route or course or within a defined area for the purpose of giving its passengers amusement, pleasure or excitement, but such term does not include:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6402

• 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. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: means a deceased individual and includes a stillborn infant or fetus. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Department: means the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• 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. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Director: means the Director of the Division of Public Health, or such persons as may be designated by the Director. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• Division: means the Division of Public Health. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• Document of gift: means a donor card or other record used to make, amend, or revoke an anatomical gift. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• 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. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Donee: means a person authorized to receive an anatomical gift. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Donor: means an individual who makes a gift of all or part of the individual's body. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Donor registry: means a database which contains records of anatomical gifts. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• 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. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fund: means the Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Trust Fund. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• 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. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Infant: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Medical examiner: means the Chief Medical Examiner, a Deputy Medical Examiner, an Assistant Medical Examiner, or their designee. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Minor: means an individual who is under 18 years of age. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• OPO: means the federally certified organ procurement organization for the State. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Part: includes organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood, other fluids and other portions of a human body, and "part" includes "parts. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• 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. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Probate: Proving a will
• 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. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• 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. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Recipient: means an individual into whose body a decedent's part has been or is intended to be transplanted. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• 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. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Recovery specialist: means a medical professional licensed by this or another state or technician trained in accordance with federal standards pursuant to 42 U. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• State: includes a state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession and any other area subject to the legislative authority of the United States of America. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• surgeon: means a physician or surgeon licensed or authorized to practice under the laws of any state. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• 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. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Under age: means an age of less than 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302