O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-5-154 (2019)

Limited prohibition on sale or purchase of body parts

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, 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 felony and upon conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $50,000.00 or imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both. (b) A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a part.

History

(Code 1981, § 44-5-154, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 503, § 1/SB 405.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Buying or selling or offering to buy or sell the human body or

parts, § 16-12-160. Sale by contract or will of implanted pacemaker, § 53-1-4.