§ 10.04.010. Definitions.  


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  • For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

    "Board of health" means the metropolitan board of health established by Section 10.101 of the Metropolitan Charter.

    "Chief medical director" means the chief administrative officer of the board of health or his designated representative.

    "Dead body" means a lifeless human body, or such severed parts of the human body, or the bones thereof, from the state of which it may reasonably be concluded that the death had recently occurred, and where the circumstances under which such dead body was found indicated that the death has not been recorded.

    "Department of health" means the department of health of the metropolitan government. Such term shall include the board and all of its agents, employees and activities.

    "Director of health" means the chief medical director of health of the board of health or his designated representative.

    "Live birth" means a birth in which the child shows evidence of life after complete birth, that is, when the child is entirely outside of the mother, even if the cord is uncut and placenta still attached. The words "evidence of life" include heart action, breathing or a coordinated movement of a voluntary muscle.

    "Midwife" means any person other than a physician who shall attend the birth or stillbirth of a child.

    "Person in charge of interment" means any person who places or causes to be placed a deceased person, stillborn child or dead body or, after cremation, the ashes thereof, in the earth, a grave, tomb, vault, urn or other receptacle, either in a cemetery or at any other place, or disposes otherwise thereof.

    "Physician" means a person authorized by law to practice a healing art in the state.

    "Stillbirth" means a birth after twenty weeks of gestation which is not a live birth.

(Prior code §§ 20-1-1 (part), 20-1-218)