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233.1 NEWBORN SAFE HAVEN ACT -- DEFINITIONS.
1. This chapter may be cited as the "Newborn Safe Haven Act".
2. For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise
requires:
a. "Institutional health facility" means a hospital as
defined in section 135B.1, including a facility providing medical or
health services that is open twenty-four hours per day, seven days
per week and is a hospital emergency room or a health care facility
as defined in section 135C.1.
b. "Newborn infant" means a child who is, or who appears to
be, fourteen days of age or younger. Section History: Recent Form
2001 Acts, ch 67, §1, 13; 2002 Acts, ch 1119, §33
