Illinois Compiled Statutes 720 ILCS 5 Criminal Code of 2012. Section 12-20.5

    (720 ILCS 5/12-20.5)

    Sec. 12-20.5. Dismembering a human body.

    (a) A person commits dismembering a human body when he or she knowingly dismembers, severs, separates, dissects, or mutilates any body part of a deceased's body.

    (b) This Section does not apply to:

        (1) an anatomical gift made in accordance with the

    Illinois Anatomical Gift Act;

        (2) (blank);

        (3) the purchase or sale of drugs, reagents, or other

    substances made from human body parts, for the use in medical or scientific research, treatment, or diagnosis;

        (4) persons employed by a county medical examiner's

    office or coroner's office acting within the scope of their employment while performing an autopsy;

        (5) the acts of a licensed funeral director or

    embalmer while performing acts authorized by the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code;

        (6) the acts of emergency medical personnel or

    physicians performed in good faith and according to the usual and customary standards of medical practice in an attempt to resuscitate a life; or

        (7) physicians licensed to practice medicine in all

    of its branches or holding a visiting professor, physician, or resident permit under the Medical Practice Act of 1987, performing acts in accordance with usual and customary standards of medical practice, or a currently enrolled student in an accredited medical school in furtherance of his or her education at the accredited medical school.

    (c) It is not a defense to a violation of this Section that the decedent died due to natural, accidental, or suicidal causes.

    (d) Sentence. Dismembering a human body is a Class X felony.

(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11.)

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