Guam § 13503 - Definitions.

§ 13503. 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.