2022 Wyoming Statutes
Title 35 - Public Health and Safety
Chapter 1 - Administration
Article 4 - Vital Records
Section 35-1-401 - Definitions.

35-1-401. Definitions.

(a) As used in this act:

(i) "Vital records" means records of birth, death, stillbirth, marriage, divorce and data relating thereto;

(ii) "System of vital records" includes the registration, collection, preservation, amendment, and certification of vital records and activities related thereto including the tabulation, analysis, and publication of statistical data derived from such records;

(iii) "Filing" means the presentation of a certificate, report, or other record of a birth, death, stillbirth, adoption, marriage, or divorce, for registration by vital records services;

(iv) "Registration" means the acceptance by vital records services and the incorporation in its official records of certificates, reports or other records of births, deaths, stillbirths, adoption, marriages, and divorces;

(v) "Live birth" means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother or its gestational carrier of a fetus, which after such expulsion or extraction, breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached;

(vi) "Stillbirth" means a birth after twenty (20) completed weeks gestation in which the child shows no evidence of life after complete birth;

(vii) "Dead body" means a lifeless human body, or such severed parts of the human body, or the bones thereof, from the state of which it reasonably may be concluded that death occurred;

(viii) "Final disposition" means the burial, interment, cremation, or other disposition of a dead body or stillbirth;

(ix) "Person in charge of interment" means any person who places or causes to be placed a deceased, stillbirth, or dead body, or after cremation the ashes thereof, in the earth, a grave, tomb, vault, urn or other receptacle, either in a cemetery or at any other place, or otherwise disposes of a body;

(x) "Physician" means a person authorized or licensed to practice medicine as provided in W.S. 33-26-101 through 33-26-601;

(xi) "Institution" means any establishment, public or private, which provides inpatient medical, surgical or diagnostic care or treatment, or nursing, custodial or domiciliary care to two (2) or more unrelated individuals, or to which persons are committed by law;

(xii) "Advanced practice registered nurse" means as provided in W.S. 33-21-120(a)(i);

(xiii) "Physician assistant" means as provided in W.S. 33-26-501(a)(iii);

(xiv) "Gestational agreement" means a written, notarized agreement between two (2) intended parents and a gestational carrier where:

(A) The gestational carrier agrees to pregnancy by means of assisted reproduction;

(B) The gestational carrier, and her spouse if she is married, agree to relinquish all rights and duties as the parent of any child that is delivered from the gestational carrier;

(C) The agreement specifies that the intended parents shall become the parents of the child;

(D) All parties to the agreement are twenty-one (21) years of age or older;

(E) The intended parents have been residents of the state of Wyoming for not less than one (1) year immediately preceding the date of the gestational agreement;

(F) The agreement is filed with the state registrar of vital records. Any agreement filed under this subparagraph shall be sealed and placed in a special file and may be opened only upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction or as otherwise provided by law;

(G) Compensation is limited to expenses related to prenatal care, delivery of the child and any other costs including the cost of lost opportunity that are directly connected to the pregnancy.

(xv) "Gestational carrier" means a woman twenty-one (21) years of age or older who gives birth to a child under a gestational agreement;

(xvi) "Intended parents" means two (2) persons who enter into a gestational agreement with a gestational carrier for the birth of a child for which the two (2) persons shall assume paternity or maternity.