Sale or purchase of parts prohibited

Sale or purchase of parts prohibited. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, a person who 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 punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, a fine of not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) or both. (b) A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation or disposal of a part.