Chapter 65: Public Health

Article 32: Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

Statute 65-3235: Sale or purchase of parts prohibited. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a person that for valuable consideration, knowingly purchases or sells a part for transplantation or therapy if removal of a part from an individual is intended to occur after the individual's death commits a severity level 5, nonperson felony.

      (b)   A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a part.

      History:   L. 2007, ch. 127, § 16; July 1.