In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1.    “Birthing hospital” means a hospital licensed under chapter 23-16 which provides obstetrical services.

2.    “Department” means the department of health and human services.

3.    “Donor” means a woman whose body produced an egg for the purposes of assisted conception but does not include a woman whose body produces an egg used for the purpose of conceiving a child for that woman.

4.    “Gestational carrier” means a woman who enters into an agreement to have an embryo implanted in her and bear the resulting child for intended parents, when the embryo is conceived by using the egg and sperm of the intended parents.

5.    “Married woman” includes a woman who attempted to marry by a marriage solemnized in apparent compliance with law, although the attempted marriage is or could be declared invalid.

6.    “Mother” means a woman who gives birth to a child or, if pregnancy resulted from assisted conception, the woman who is the donor but not the woman who is the gestational carrier.

7.    “Party” means the man with whom the relationship of father and child is sought or established, the child’s mother, and, for purposes of proceedings to relieve a party of the relationship of father and child, the child.

8.    “Relationship of father and child” means the legal relationship existing between a father and the father’s natural or adoptive child incident to which the law confers or imposes rights, privileges, duties, and obligations.

9.    “Voluntary paternity establishment service entity” means the department of health and human services and any child support agency, as that term is defined in section 14-09-09.10.