{"data":{"id":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-12-20.5","jurisdiction":"us-il","citation":"720 ILCS 5/12-20.5","heading":"Dismembering a human body.","body":"(a) A person commits dismembering a human body when he or she knowingly dismembers, severs, separates, dissects, or mutilates any body part of a deceased's body.\n(b) This Section does not apply to:\n(1) an anatomical gift made in accordance with the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act;\n(2) (blank);\n(3) the purchase or sale of drugs, reagents, or other substances made from human body parts, for the use in medical or scientific research, treatment, or diagnosis;\n(4) persons employed by a county medical examiner's office or coroner's office acting within the scope of their employment while performing an autopsy;\n(5) the acts of a licensed funeral director or embalmer while performing acts authorized by the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code;\n(6) the acts of emergency medical personnel or physicians performed in good faith and according to the usual and customary standards of medical practice in an attempt to resuscitate a life; or\n(7) physicians licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches or holding a visiting professor, physician, or resident permit under the Medical Practice Act of 1987, performing acts in accordance with usual and customary standards of medical practice, or a currently enrolled student in an accredited medical school in furtherance of his or her education at the accredited medical school.\n(c) It is not a defense to a violation of this Section that the decedent died due to natural, accidental, or suicidal causes.\n(d) Sentence. Dismembering a human body is a Class X felony.","path":["CHAPTER 720 CRIMINAL OFFENSES","Criminal Code of 2012."],"source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ILCS/details?ActID=1876\u0026ChapterID=53\u0026ChapAct=FullText\u0026Print=True","current_through":"at least Public Act 104-790","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-15T04:46:41Z","sha256":"39c27da788aff2aac58547f8ceff5433a4458394ab34df5db8709c7413c17688","source_id":"us-il","stale":false,"prev":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-12-20","next":"us-il/720-ilcs-5-12-20.6"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}