(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), any person who knowingly pays or offers to pay any financial consideration to a donor or to any of the persons listed in subsection (b) of Section 5-5 for making or consenting to an anatomical gift shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for the first conviction and a Class 4 felony for subsequent convictions.

(b) This Section does not prohibit reimbursement for reasonable costs associated with the removal, storage or transportation of a human body or part thereof pursuant to an anatomical gift executed pursuant to this Act.

(Source: P.A. 93-794, eff. 7-22-04.)

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