Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 144C - Final Disposition Act

• Adult: means a person who is married or who is eighteen years of age or older. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Assisted living program: means an assisted living program under chapter 231C. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Ceremony: means a formal act or set of formal acts established by custom or authority to commemorate a decedent. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Child: means a son or daughter of a person, whether by birth or adoption. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Decedent: means a deceased adult. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Declarant: means a competent adult who executes a declaration pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Declaration: means a written instrument 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. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Department: means the Iowa department of public health. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• 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. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Elder group home: means elder group home as defined in section 231B. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Final disposition: means the burial, interment, cremation, removal from the state, or other disposition of remains. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Health care facility: means health care facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Health care provider: means health care provider as defined in section 144A. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Hospital: means hospital as defined in section 135B. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Licensed hospice program: means a licensed hospice program as defined in section 135J. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Person: means a natural person. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• 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. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• Remains: means the body or cremated remains of a decedent. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Iowa Code 152E.3
• 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. See Iowa Code 144C.2
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1