35 Pa. Stat. § 1095

Current through P.A. Acts 2023-32
Section 1095 - Schools to give bond before receiving bodies

No university, school, college, physician, surgeon, or association shall be allowed or permitted to receive any such body or bodies until a bond, approved as to form by the Attorney General, shall have been given to the board by such physician or surgeon, or by or in behalf of such university, school, college, or association, which bond shall be in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned that all such bodies which the said physician or surgeon, or the said university, school, college, or association shall receive thereafter shall be used only for the promotion of medical science within this State, and whosoever shall sell or buy such body or bodies, or part or parts of such body or bodies, or in any way traffic in the same, or shall transmit or convey or cause to procure to be transmitted or conveyed said body or bodies, or part or parts of such body or bodies, to any place outside of this State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year; but this section shall not be construed as prohibiting any physician or dentist licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or the members of the board, from transporting human specimens outside of the State for their temporary use at scientific meetings or exhibits.

35 P.S. § 1095

1883, June 13, P.L. 119, § 5. Amended 1937, April 22, P.L. 411, § 5.