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Tex. Health & Safety Code § 691.001

DEFINITIONS

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Tim Kennedy, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Edna Mae Kennedy v. Anatomical Board of the State of Texas (2004)

Most recently applied in Tim Kennedy, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Edna Mae Kennedy v. Anatomical Board of the State of Texas (October 2004)

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff

In this chapter:

(1) "Advisory committee" means the State Anatomical Advisory Committee.

(1-a) "Anatomical facility" means a facility in this state inspected and approved by the commission under Section 691.034 that does not operate as a willed body program or a non-transplant anatomical donation organization.

(2) "Body" means a human corpse.

(3) "Anatomical specimen" means a part of a human corpse.

(4) "Commission" means the Texas Funeral Service Commission.

(5) "Non-transplant anatomical donation organization" means a person accredited to engage in the recovery, receipt, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of tissue or human remains for any purpose other than transplantation into a living individual in this state.

(6) "Willed body program" means a program operated at an institution of higher education in this state that allows a living individual to donate the individual's body or anatomical specimen for educational or research purposes.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.