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Miss. Code Ann. § 41-39-131

Sale or purchase of parts prohibited

Laws, 2008, ch. 561, § 16; reenacted without change, Laws, 2012, ch. 346, § 16; reenacted without change, Laws, 2014, ch. 315, § 16, eff from and after July 1, 2014.

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), 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 Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) or imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years, or both.

A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a part.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.