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Public Health Law § 4370 · Title 2. Living Organ Donation

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§ 4370. Definitions. As used in this title, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

1. "Living donation" means the gift by an individual of an organ of that individual's body to be transplanted into another individual's body, the gift to be executed while the donating individual is living and with the intent that the donating individual will continue to live after the execution of the gift.

2. "Living donor" means: (a) an individual who makes a living donation; or

(b) an individual who incurs expenses as part of the living donation screening and evaluation process but that, through no decision or judgment of their own, does not become an actual living donor.

3. "Living donor expenses" means financial costs incurred by a living donor that arise due to the act of living donation and its consequences, that are subject to reimbursement under section forty-three hundred seventy-one of this title.

4. "Living donor support program" or "program" means the living donor support program established under section forty-three hundred seventy-one of this title.

5. "Paired donation" means a living donation in which the living donor's organ is incompatible with the ultimate intended recipient and the living donor's organ is transplanted into another recipient, and in turn another living donor makes a living donation, directly or through one or more paired donations, to the ultimate intended recipient of the initial living donor.

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