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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="5-408" title_number="5" title_name="Death" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Anatomy Board">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may not sell or buy any body or any part of a body that is under the exclusive control of the Board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person other than a nonprofit organization that qualifies under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, may not sell, buy, or act as a broker for a profit in the transfer of any human organ that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is removed from a human body that is alive or dead at the time of removal; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Is not under the exclusive control of the Board.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In this section, “human organ” does not include blood and plasma.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, a person may not send, transport, or permit or cause to be sent or transported out of the State any body or any part of a body that is under the exclusive control of the Board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board may authorize, by regulation, the transporting of human specimens under its exclusive control to an out–of–state medical study program, provided that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The needs of the schools of the State are met;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The requesting party demonstrates the need for a specimen;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The circumstances of the request are that:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>No other sufficient source of specimens within the requesting state exists; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>A preexisting organ tissue donation was made by an individual in compliance with the Maryland Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>The requesting party bears the responsibility for transporting and the specialized care of the specimen and all associated costs; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>The Board retains the right of exclusive control of the specimen including the final disposition when appropriate or necessary to fulfill an obligation to return the remains of a donated specimen to the donor’s family.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Board may authorize a physician, teacher, demonstrator, or investigator of advanced human biological sciences to send or transport human specimens out of the State for use by medical study programs.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
