Public Act 93-0339

HB2653 Enrolled                      LRB093 04121 RLC 08310 b

    AN ACT in relation to criminal law.

    Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by adding
Section 12-20.5 as follows:

    (720 ILCS 5/12-20.5 new)
    Sec. 12-20.5.  Dismembering a human body.
    (a)  A person commits the offense of 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
    Uniform Anatomical Gift Act;
         (2)  the  removal  and  use  of  a  human  cornea in
    accordance with the Illinois Corneal Transplant Act;
         (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.

    Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.