Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 10 > Article 14 > Chapter 3.5 - Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act

• 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.
• department of homeland security: refers to the department of homeland security established by IC 10-19-2-1. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-0.5
• disaster relief organization: means an entity that provides emergency or disaster relief services that include health or veterinary services provided by volunteer health practitioners and:

  Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-1

• emergency: means an event or condition that is an emergency, a disaster, or a public health emergency under this article. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-2
• emergency declaration: means a declaration of emergency issued by a person authorized to do so under state or local laws of Indiana. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-3
• Emergency Management Assistance Compact: means the federal interstate compact under P. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-4
• entity: means a person other than an individual. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-5
• health facility: means an entity licensed under the laws of Indiana or another state to provide health or veterinary services. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-6
• health practitioner: means an individual licensed under the laws of Indiana or another state to provide health or veterinary services. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-7
• health services: means the provision of treatment, care, advice, guidance, or other services or supplies related to the health or death of individuals or human populations to the extent necessary to respond to an emergency, including:

  Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-8

• host entity: means an entity operating in Indiana that uses volunteer health practitioners to respond to an emergency. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-9
• 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.
• license: means authorization by a state to engage in health or veterinary services that are unlawful without the authorization. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-10
• 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, a corporation, a business trust, a trust, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a joint venture, a public corporation, a government or governmental subdivision, an agency, an instrumentality, or another legal or commercial entity. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-11
• scope of practice: means the extent of the authorization to provide health or veterinary services granted to a health practitioner by a license issued to the practitioner in the state in which the principal part of the practitioner's services are rendered, including conditions imposed by the licensing authority. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-12
• state: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or a territory or an insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-13
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• veterinary services: means the provision of treatment, care, advice, guidance, or other services or supplies related to the health or death of an animal or to animal populations to the extent necessary to respond to an emergency, including:

  Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-14

• volunteer health practitioner: means a health practitioner who provides health or veterinary services, whether or not the practitioner receives compensation for those services. See Indiana Code 10-14-3.5-15