2013 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 23 - Health and Safety
Chapter 23-18.6.1 - Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
Section 23-18.6.1-16 - Sale or purchase of parts prohibited.
§ 23-18.6.1-16 Sale or purchase of parts prohibited. – (a) 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) or imprisonment not exceeding five (five) years, or both.
(b) Subject to subsection (c), a person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a part.
(c) No physician, hospital or other health care provider may charge the donor's estate or family for any cost incurred in testing or removing a donor's part, and such charge shall be void and unenforceable.
History of Section.
(P.L. 2007, ch. 476, § 2; P.L. 2009, ch. 235, § 1; P.L. 2009, ch. 236, § 1.)
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