Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-2200.2A

As used in the Oklahoma Uniform Anatomical Gift Act:

1. "Adult" means an individual who is at least eighteen (18)

years of age;

2. "Agent" means an individual:

a. authorized to make health care decisions on the

principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health

care, or

b. expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the

principal's behalf by any other record signed by the

principal;

3. "Anatomical donor program" means an entity that is

registered with the State Anatomical Board to receive and issue

bodies or body parts for education or research;

4. "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;

5. "Decedent" means a deceased individual whose body or part is

or may be the source of an anatomical gift and includes a stillborn

infant and, subject to restrictions imposed by any other provisions

of law, a fetus;

6. "Disinterested witness" means a witness other than the

spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandchild, grandparent, or guardian

of the individual who makes, amends, revokes, or refuses to make an

anatomical gift, or another adult who exhibited special care and

concern for the individual and does not include a person to whom an

anatomical gift could pass under Section 2200.11A of this title;

7. "Document of gift" means a donor card or other record used

to make an anatomical gift, including a statement or symbol on a

driver license, identification card, or donor registry;

8. "Donor" means an individual whose body or part is the

subject of an anatomical gift;

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9. "Donor registry" means a database that contains records of

anatomical gifts and amendments to or revocations of anatomical

gifts;

10. "Driver license" means a license or permit issued by the

Department of Public Safety to operate a vehicle, whether or not

conditions are attached to the license or permit;

11. "Eye 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 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 and 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 an identification card issued

by the Department of Public Safety;

15. "Know" means to have actual knowledge;

16. "Minor" means an individual who is under eighteen (18)

years of age;

17. "Organ procurement organization" means a person designated

by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human

Services as an organ procurement organization;

18. "Non-transplant tissue bank" means an entity that is

registered with the State Anatomical Board to engage in the

recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution

of tissue for education and research;

19. "Parent" means a parent whose parental rights have not been

terminated;

20. "Part" means an organ, an eye, or tissue of a human being

and does not include the whole body;

21. "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust,

estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association,

joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental

subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or

commercial entity;

22. "Physician" means an individual authorized to practice

medicine or osteopathy under the law of any state;

23. "Procurement organization" means an eye bank, organ

procurement organization, or tissue bank;

24. "Prospective donor" means an individual who is dead or near
corporation, government or governmental

subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or

commercial entity;

22. "Physician" means an individual authorized to practice

medicine or osteopathy under the law of any state;

23. "Procurement organization" means an eye bank, organ

procurement organization, or tissue bank;

24. "Prospective donor" means an individual who is dead or near

death and who has been determined by a procurement organization to

have a part that could be medically suitable for transplantation,

therapy, research, or education and does not include an individual

who has made a refusal;

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25. "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;

26. "Recipient" means an individual into whose body a

decedent's part has been or is intended to be transplanted;

27. "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;

28. "Refusal" means a record created under Section 2200.7A of

this title that expressly states an intent to bar other persons from

making an anatomical gift of an individual's body or part;

29. "Sign" means, with the present intent to authenticate or

adopt a record, to:

a. execute or adopt a tangible symbol, or

b. attach to or logically associate with the record an

electronic symbol, sound, or process;

30. "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;

31. "Technician" means an individual determined to be qualified

to remove or process parts by an appropriate organization that is

licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law,

including an enucleator;

32. "Tissue" means a portion of the human body other than an

organ or an eye and does not include blood unless the blood is

donated for the purpose of research or education;

33. "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;

and

34. "Transplant hospital" means a hospital that furnishes organ

transplants and other medical and surgical specialty services

required for the care of transplant patients.