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ORS 97.981: Purchase or sale of body parts prohibited.
Where this section sits in the code
- 03 - Landlord-Tenant, Domestic Relations, Probate
- 10. Property Rights and Transactions
- Chapter 97 — Rights and Duties Relating to Cemeteries, Human Bodies and Anatomical Gifts
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) of this section, a person commits the crime of purchase or sale of a body part for transplantation or therapy if the person, for valuable consideration, knowingly purchases or sells a body part for transplantation or therapy if removal of the body part from an individual is intended to occur after the individual’s death.
(2) Purchase or sale of a body part for transplantation or therapy is a Class C felony.
(3) A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation or disposal of a body part.
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