Oregon Statutes 97.953 – Definitions for ORS 97.951 to 97.982
As used in ORS § 97.951 to 97.982:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 97.953
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Donor: The person who makes a gift.
- 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.
- 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.
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- United States: includes territories, outlying possessions and the District of Columbia. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
(1) ‘Adult’ means an individual who is 18 years of age or older.
(2) ‘Agent’ means:
(a) A health care representative or an alternate health care representative appointed under ORS § 127.510; or
(b) An individual expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal’s behalf by any record signed by the principal.
(3) ‘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.
(4) ‘Body part’ means an organ, an eye or tissue of a human being. The term does not include the whole body.
(5) ‘Decedent’ means a deceased individual whose body or body part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift, and includes a stillborn infant or a fetus.
(6)(a) ‘Disinterested witness’ means a witness other than:
(A) A spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandchild, grandparent or guardian of the individual who makes, amends, revokes or refuses to make an anatomical gift; or
(B) An adult who exhibited special care and concern for the individual.
(b) ‘Disinterested witness’ does not include a person to whom an anatomical gift could pass under ORS § 97.969.
(7) ‘Document of gift’ means a donor card or other record used to make an anatomical gift. The term includes a statement, symbol or designation on a driver license, identification card or donor registry.
(8) ‘Donor’ means an individual whose body or body part is the subject of an anatomical gift.
(9) ‘Donor registry’ means a centralized database that contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or revocations of anatomical gifts.
(10) ‘Driver license’ means a license or permit issued under ORS § 807.040, 807.200, 807.280 or 807.730, regardless of whether conditions are attached to the license or permit.
(11) ‘Eye bank’ means an organization 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.
(12) ‘Guardian’ means a person appointed by a court to make decisions regarding the support, care, education, health or welfare of an individual. ‘Guardian’ does not include a guardian ad litem.
(13) ‘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.
(14) ‘Identification card’ means the card issued under ORS § 807.400 or 807.730, or a comparable provision of the motor vehicle laws of another state.
(15) ‘Know’ means to have actual knowledge.
(16) ‘Minor’ means an individual who is under 18 years of age.
(17) ‘Organ procurement organization’ means an organization designated by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services as an organ procurement organization.
(18) ‘Parent’ means a parent whose parental rights have not been terminated.
(19) ‘Physician’ means an individual authorized to practice medicine under the law of any state.
(20) ‘Procurement organization’ means an eye bank, organ procurement organization or tissue bank.
(21) ‘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. The term does not include an individual who has made a refusal.
(22) ‘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.
(23) ‘Recipient’ means an individual into whose body a decedent‘s body part has been or is intended to be transplanted.
(24) ‘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.
(25) ‘Refusal’ means a record that expressly states an intent to prohibit other persons from making an anatomical gift of an individual’s body or body part.
(26) ‘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.
(27) ‘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.
(28) ‘Technician’ means an individual determined to be qualified to remove or process body parts by an appropriate organization that is licensed, accredited or regulated under federal or state law. The term includes an enucleator.
(29) ‘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.
(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.
(31) ‘Transplant hospital’ means a hospital that furnishes organ transplants and other medical and surgical specialty services required for the care of transplant patients. [2007 c.681 § 2; 2008 c.1 § 33; 2017 c.409 § 2; 2018 c.36 § 24; 2019 c.701 § 15]
See note under 97.951.
[1995 c.717 § 3; 1997 c.472 § 6; 1999 c.201 § 2; 2005 c.505 § 3; repealed by 2007 c.681 § 31]