(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.
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