144.1 - DEFINITIONS.
144.1 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Board" means the state board of health.
2. "Book", "list", "record", or "schedule" kept
by a county auditor, assessor, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, or other
county officer means the county system as defined in section 445.1.
3. "Court of competent jurisdiction" when used to refer to
inspection of an original certificate of birth based upon an adoption
means the court where the adoption was ordered.
4. "Dead body" means a lifeless human body or parts or bones
of a body, if, from the state of the body, parts, or bones, it may
reasonably be concluded that death recently occurred.
5. "Department" means the Iowa department of public health.
6. "Division" means a division, within the department, for
records and statistics.
7. "Fetal death" means death prior to the complete expulsion
or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception,
irrespective of the duration of pregnancy. Death is indicated by the
fact that after expulsion or extraction the fetus does not breathe or
show any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart,
pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary
muscles. In determining a fetal death, heartbeats shall be
distinguished from transient cardiac contractions, and respirations
shall be distinguished from fleeting respiratory efforts or gasps.
8. "Filing" means the presentation of a certificate, report,
or other record, provided for in this chapter, of a birth, death,
fetal death, adoption, marriage, dissolution, or annulment for
registration by the division.
9. "Final disposition" means the burial, interment,
cremation, removal from the state, or other disposition of a dead
body or fetus.
10. "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 or more
unrelated individuals, or to which persons are committed by law.
11. "Live birth" means the complete expulsion or extraction
from its mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the
duration of pregnancy, 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. In determining a live birth, heartbeats
shall be distinguished from transient cardiac contractions, and
respirations shall be distinguished from fleeting respiratory efforts
or gasps.
12. "Registration" means the process by which vital statistic
records are completed, filed, and incorporated by the division in the
division's official records.
13. "State registrar" means the state registrar of vital
statistics.
14. "System of vital statistics" includes the registration,
collection, preservation, amendment, and certification of vital
statistics records, and activities and records related thereto
including the data processing, analysis, and publication of
statistical data derived from such records.
15. "Vital statistics" means records of births, deaths, fetal
deaths, adoptions, marriages, dissolutions, annulments, and data
related thereto. Section History: Early Form
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2317, 2384; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §
141.1, 144.1; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 144.1] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 101, § 21; 97 Acts, ch 159, §7; 99 Acts, ch 141, §14,
15; 2000 Acts, ch 1148, §1; 2002 Acts, ch 1119, §200, 201
Referred to in § 252A.2