144C.2 - DEFINITIONS.
144C.2 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Adult" means a person who is married or who is eighteen
years of age or older.
2. "Adult day services program" means adult day services
program as defined in section 231D.1.
3. "Assisted living program" means an assisted living program
under chapter 231C.
4. "Ceremony" means a formal act or set of formal acts
established by custom or authority to commemorate a decedent.
5. "Child" means a son or daughter of a person, whether by
birth or adoption.
6. "Decedent" means a deceased adult.
7. "Declarant" means a competent adult who executes a
declaration pursuant to this chapter.
8. "Declaration" means a written instrument, contained in or
attached to a durable power of attorney for health care under chapter
144B, that is executed by a declarant in accordance with the
requirements of this chapter, and that names a designee who shall
have the sole responsibility and discretion for making decisions
concerning the final disposition of the declarant's remains and the
ceremonies planned after the declarant's death.
9. "Designee" means a competent adult designated under a
declaration who shall have the sole responsibility and discretion for
making decisions concerning the final disposition of the declarant's
remains and the ceremonies planned after the declarant's death.
10. "Elder group home" means elder group home as defined in
section 231B.1.
11. "Final disposition" means the burial, interment,
cremation, removal from the state, or other disposition of remains.
12. "Health care facility" means health care facility as
defined in section 135C.1.
13. "Health care provider" means health care provider as
defined in section 144A.2.
14. "Hospital" means hospital as defined in section 135B.1.
15. "Interested person" means a decedent's spouse, parent,
grandparent, adult child, adult sibling, adult grandchild, or a
designee.
16. "Licensed hospice program" means a licensed hospice
program as defined in section 135J.1.
17. "Reasonable under the circumstances" means consideration
of what is appropriate in relation to the declarant's finances,
cultural or family customs, and religious or spiritual beliefs.
"Reasonable under the circumstances" may include but is not
limited to consideration of the declarant's preneed funeral, burial,
or cremation plan, and known or reasonably ascertainable creditors of
the declarant.
18. "Remains" means the body or cremated remains of a
decedent.
19. a. "Third party" means a person who is requested to
dispose of remains by an adult with the right to dispose of a
decedent's remains under section 144C.5 or assist with arrangements
for ceremonies planned after the declarant's death.
b. "Third party" includes but is not limited to a funeral
director, funeral establishment, cremation establishment, cemetery,
the state medical examiner, or a county medical examiner. Section History: Recent Form
2008 Acts, ch 1051, §7, 22; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §45