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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="4-513" title_number="4" title_name="Wills" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, if removal of a part from an individual is intended to occur after the individual’s death, a person may not for valuable consideration knowingly purchase or sell the part for transplantation or therapy.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person that violates paragraph (1) of this subsection is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may charge a reasonable amount of money for the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a part.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The prohibition in subsection (a) of this section does not apply to blood and plasma.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may not, in order to obtain financial gain, intentionally falsify, forge, conceal, deface, or obliterate a document of gift, an amendment or revocation of a document of gift, or a refusal.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person who violates paragraph (1) of this subsection is guilty of a felony and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years or both.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
