2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 43 - (4300 - 4310) ANATOMICAL GIFTS
4300 - Definitions.

 
    §  4300.  Definitions.  As  used  in this section, the following terms
  shall have the following meanings:
    1. "Bank or storage facility" means a hospital,  laboratory  or  other
  facility licensed or approved under the laws of any state for storage of
  human  bodies  or parts thereof, for use in medical education, research,
  therapy, or transplantation to individuals.
    2. "Decedent" means a deceased individual of any age  and  includes  a
  stillborn infant or fetus.
    3.  "Donor" means an individual who makes a gift of all or part of his
  body.
    4. "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.
    5. "Part" of a body includes organs, tissues, eyes,  bones,  arteries,
  blood,  other  fluids  and  other  portions  of a human body, and "part"
  includes "parts"
    6.  "Person"  means  an   individual,   corporation,   government   or
  governmental  subdivision  or  agency,  business  trust,  estate, trust,
  partnership or association, or any other legal entity.
    7. "Physician" or "surgeon" means a physician or surgeon  licensed  or
  authorized to practice under the laws of any state.
    8.  "State"  includes  any  state,  district, commonwealth, territory,
  insular possession, and  any  other  area  subject  to  the  legislative
  authority of the United States of America.