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Health and Safety Code - HSC

DIVISION 106. PERSONAL HEALTH CARE (INCLUDING MATERNAL, CHILD, AND ADOLESCENT) [123100 - 125850]

  ( Division 106 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 8. )
  

PART 5.5. USE OF HUMAN CELLS [125300 - 125356]

  ( Part 5.5 heading added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 507, Sec. 5. )
  

CHAPTER 1. Embryo Registry [125300 - 125320]
  ( Chapter 1 heading added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 507, Sec. 6. )

  
125320.  

(a)  A person may not knowingly, for valuable consideration, purchase or sell embryonic or cadaveric fetal tissue for research purposes pursuant to this chapter.

(b)  For purposes of this section, “valuable consideration” does not include reasonable payment for the removal, processing, disposal, preservation, quality control, storage, transplantation, or implantation of a part.

(c)  Embryonic or cadaveric fetal tissue may be donated for research purposes pursuant to this chapter.

(Added by renumbering Section 125117 by Stats. 2003, Ch. 507, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2004.)