N.Y. Public Health Law § 4370: Definitions

§ 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.