Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 5. ACQUISITION AND LOSS OF PROPERTY · Article 6. REVISED UNIFORM ANATOMICAL GIFTS

44-5-154. Limited prohibition on sale or purchase of body parts.

Active

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(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.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

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

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.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-2010-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, page 509; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 490191d3dc54.