Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 111 - RULES OF DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
Chapter 111-8 - HEALTHCARE FACILITY REGULATION
Subject 111-8-5 - ANATOMICAL GIFTS
Rule 111-8-5-.03 - Definitions, Unless Otherwise Indicated

(1) "Anatomical Gift" or "Gift" means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect upon or after death.

(2) "Bank or Storage Facility" means an organ procurement organization or any other entity licensed or approved in the State of Georgia as a tissue bank, eye bank, or clinical laboratory which procures, stores, or processes human tissue designed to be used for medical purposes in human beings.

(3) "Decedent" means a deceased individual and includes a stillborn infant or fetus.

(4) "Department" means the Georgia Department of Community Health.

(5) "Document of gift" means a donor card, a statement attached to or imprinted on a motor operator's or chauffeur's license, a will, or other writing used to make an anatomical gift.

(6) "Donee" means the person that receives an anatomical gift.

(7) "Donor" means an individual who makes a gift of all or part of his body.

(8) "Enucleator" means an individual who is authorized to remove eyes.

(9) "Eye Bank" means a facility which is maintained and operated for the extraction, removal, care, storage, preservation, and use of human eyes or parts thereof for purposes of sight preservation or restoration, medical education, instruction pertaining to sight preservation, or restoration, or research and which is licensed by the Department for such purposes.

(10) "Hospital" means a hospital licensed, accredited, or approved under the laws of any state, although not required to be licensed under state laws, and includes hospitals operated by the United States government or by the state or a subdivision thereof.

(11) "Hospital Administrator" means the person in charge of a hospital.

(12) "Organ" means any heart, lung, pancreas, kidney, or liver.

(13) "Organ Procurement Organization" means an organization located in the State of Georgia that is designated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the federal Department of Health and Human Services under the end stage renal disease facility regulations to perform or coordinate the performance of all of the following services:

(14) "Part" means organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood and other fluids, and any other portions of a human body. The term "part" also means a heart pacemaker.

(15) "Person" means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust partnership or association, or any other legal entity.

(16) "Physician" or "Surgeon" means a physician or surgeon licensed or authorized to practice under the laws of any state.

(17) "State" means any state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession, and any other area subject to the legislative authority of the United States of America.

(18) "Technician" means an individual authorized by a bank or storage facility to remove or process an anatomical gift, excluding the removal of organs for transplantation.

(19) "Tissue Bank" means a facility which provides through its ownership or operation for the storage of human or animal tissues designed to be used for medical purposes in human beings and which is licensed by the department as a clinical laboratory.