194.275. Purchase or sale of body parts for valuable consideration prohibited--penalty--definition. - Missouri Statutes

Purchase or sale of body parts for valuable considerationprohibited--penalty--definition.

194.275. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 of thissection, a person that for valuable consideration knowingly purchases orsells a part for any purpose if removal of the whole body or a part from anindividual is intended to occur after the individual's death commits afelony and upon pleading or being found guilty is subject to a fine notexceeding fifty thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding seven years,or both.

2. For purposes of this section, the term "valuable consideration"does not include the reasonable payments associated with the removal,transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control,and storage of any part or a whole body.

(L. 2008 S.B. 1139)