Definitions

As used in this Article:

(a)“Authorized Safe Haven personnel” shall mean:

(1)any medical professional licensed under 10 GCA Chapter 12 to practice the Healing Arts, as defined by that Chapter, working in conjunction with an authorized Safe Haven; or

(2)any emergency medical services personnel certified by the Administrator of the Office of Emergency Medical Services under 10 GCA Chapter 84 working in their capacity as emergency medical services personnel.

(b)“Authorized Safe Haven” means a hospital, a free-standing birthing center, a fire station, or a community health center that employs authorized Safe Haven personnel.

(c)“Child abuse” has the same meaning as defined under 9 GCA § 31.30(a).

(d)“Mother” means the biological mother, a woman who has conceived rather than adopted or acquired custody of a newborn infant by other means.

(e)“Newborn infant” means a human child thirty

(30)days or younger.

(f)“Physician” means a person licensed to practice medicine by the Guam Board of Medical Examiners under 10 GCA, Chapter 12, Article 2.

(g)“Safe Haven facilitator” means any agent or employee of the government of Guam that, in the course of their duties as an agent or employee of the government of Guam, assists a mother in relinquishing her newborn infant under this Article, to include employees of Child Protective Services and the Guam Police Department.