(755 ILCS 50/1)

Sec. 1. Short Title. This Act may be cited as the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. (Source: P.A. 76-1209.) (755 ILCS 50/2)

Sec. 2. Definitions.) (a) "Bank or storage facility" means a facility licensed, accredited or approved under the laws of any state for storage of human bodies or parts thereof. (b) "Death" means for the purposes of the Act, the irreversible cessation of total brain function, according to usual and customary standards of medical practice. (c) "Decedent" means a deceased individual and includes a stillborn infant or fetus. (d) "Donor" means an individual who makes a gift of all or parts of his body. (e) "Hospital" means a hospital licensed, accredited or approved under the laws of any state; and includes a hospital operated by the United States government, a state, or a subdivision thereof, although not required to be licensed under state laws. (f) "Part" means organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood, other fluids and any other portions of a human body. (g) "Person" means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association or any other legal entity. (h) "Physician" or "surgeon" means a physician or surgeon licensed or authorized to practice medicine in all of its branches under the laws of any state. (i) "State" includes any state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession, and any other area subject to the legislative authority of the United States of America. (j) "Technician" means an individual trained and certified to remove tissue, by a recognized medical training institution in the State of Illinois. (Source: P.A. 79-952.)

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