Section 130A-412.18 - Sale or purchase of body parts prohibited(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, a person, that for valuable consideration, knowingly purchases or sells a body part for transplantation or therapy if removal of a body part from an individual is intended to occur after the individual's death commits a Class H felony and upon conviction may be fined up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for each offense.(b) A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a body part.N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-412.18
Added by 2007 N.C. Sess. Laws 538,s. 1, eff. 10/1/2007.