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HRS §327-16

Selling or buying body parts is a crime

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) 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.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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