HRS §327-16
Selling or buying body parts is a crime
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This law makes it a crime to buy or sell a body part for transplant or therapy when the part is removed after death. It is a serious felony with possible jail time and a fine. You may still charge a reasonable fee for handling the body part, like storage or transport.
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The statute, as written — Sale or purchase of body parts prohibited
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a person that knowingly, for valuable consideration, 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 C felony and upon conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $50,000, imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both. (b) A person may charge a reasonable amount for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a body part.
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