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233.1 - NEWBORN SAFE HAVEN ACT -- DEFINITIONS.

        233.1  NEWBORN SAFE HAVEN ACT -- DEFINITIONS.
         1.  This chapter may be cited as the "Newborn Safe Haven Act".

         2.  For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise
      requires:
         a.  "Institutional health facility" means a hospital as
      defined in section 135B.1, including a facility providing medical or
      health services that is open twenty-four hours per day, seven days
      per week and is a hospital emergency room or a health care facility
      as defined in section 135C.1.
         b.  "Newborn infant" means a child who is, or who appears to
      be, fourteen days of age or younger.  

         Section History: Recent Form

         2001 Acts, ch 67, §1, 13; 2002 Acts, ch 1119, §33