2021 Indiana Code
Title 35. Criminal Law and Procedure
Article 46. Miscellaneous Offenses
Chapter 5. Offenses Against Public Sensibility
35-46-5-1. Human Organ Trafficking
Sec. 1. (a) As used in this section, "human organ" means the kidney, liver, heart, lung, cornea, eye, bone marrow, bone, pancreas, or skin of a human body.
(b) As used in this section, "item of value" means money, real estate, funeral related services, and personal property. "Item of value" does not include:
(1) the reasonable payments associated with the removal, transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control, and storage of a human organ; or
(2) the reimbursement of travel, housing, lost wages, and other expenses incurred by the donor of a human organ related to the donation of the human organ.
(c) A person who intentionally acquires, receives, sells, or transfers, in exchange for an item of value, a human organ for use in human organ transplantation commits unlawful transfer of human organs, a Level 5 felony.
As added by P.L.131-1992, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.217-1997, SEC.1; P.L.158-2013, SEC.570; P.L.213-2016, SEC.29.
