Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-21

• Agent: means an individual:

  (1) Authorized to make health care decisions on the principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health care; or

  (2) Expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal's behalf by any other record signed by the principal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2

• Anatomical gift: means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purposes of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
• Body part: means an eye or other organ, or tissue of a human being. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Donor: means an individual whose body or body part is the subject of an anatomical gift. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
• Physician: means an individual authorized to practice medicine or osteopathy under the law of any state. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
• 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}
• Procurement organization: means an eye bank, organ procurement organization, or tissue bank. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
• Prospective donor: means an individual who is dead or near death and has been determined by a procurement organization to have a body part that could be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
• 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. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2
• 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 Hawaii Revised Statutes 327-2