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PUBLIC HEALTH
(410 ILCS 510/) Cadaver Act.

410 ILCS 510/0.01

(410 ILCS 510/0.01) (from Ch. 144, par. 1550)

Sec. 0.01.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the

Cadaver Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

410 ILCS 510/1

(410 ILCS 510/1) (from Ch. 144, par. 1551)

Sec. 1.

Superintendents of penitentiaries, houses of correction and
bridewells, hospitals, state charitable institutions and county homes,
coroners, sheriffs, jailors, funeral directors and all other state,
county, town and city officers, in whose custody is the body of any
deceased person, required to be buried at public expense, shall, in the
absence of disposition of such body, or any part thereof by will or
other written instrument, give permission to any physician or surgeon
licensed in Illinois, or to any medical college or school, or other
institution of higher science education or school of mortuary science,
public or private, of any city, town or county, upon his or their
receipt in writing and request therefor, to receive and remove free of
public charge or expense, after having given proper notice to relatives
or guardians of the deceased, the bodies of such deceased persons about
to be buried at public expense, to be by him or them used within the
state, for advancement of medical, anatomical, biological or mortuary
science. Preference shall be given to medical colleges or schools,
public or private and such bodies to be distributed to and among the
same, equitably, the number assigned to each, being in proportion to the
students of each college or school: except, if any person claiming to
be, and satisfying the proper authorities that he is of kindred of the
deceased asks to have the body for burial, it shall, in the absence of
other disposition of such body, or any part thereof by will, court order
or other written instrument, be surrendered for interment. Any medical
college or school, or other institution of higher science education or
school of mortuary science, public and private, or any officers of the
same, that receive the bodies of deceased persons for the purposes of
scientific study, under the provisions of this Act, shall furnish the
same to students of medicine, surgery and biological or mortuary
sciences, who are under their instruction, at a price not exceeding the
sum of $5 for each and every such deceased body so furnished.

(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1980.)

410 ILCS 510/2

(410 ILCS 510/2) (from Ch. 144, par. 1552)

Sec. 2.

Any physician or surgeon licensed in Illinois, or any medical
college or school, or other institution of higher science education or
school of mortuary science, public or private, before receiving any dead
body under this Act, shall give to the proper authority a sufficient receipt
and bond that the body shall be used only for the promotion of medical,
anatomical, biological or mortuary science within this State. No dead human
body may be received by a physician or surgeon, medical college or school,
or other institution or school unless the body is accompanied by a Permit
for Disposition of Dead Human Body as provided by Section 21 of the Vital
Records Act and the Rules and Regulations for the Transportation and
Disposal of the Dead as promulgated by the Illinois Department of Public
Health.  Whoever (1) uses a dead human body for any other purpose, or (2)
removes a dead human body beyond the limits of this State, or (3) sells or
buys any dead human body or traffics in dead human bodies; or (4) receives
any dead human body that is not accompanied by a Permit for Disposition of
Dead Human Body, is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.  Every fine accruing
from a conviction under this Section shall be paid into the common school
fund of the county where the offense was committed.

(Source: P.A. 87-895.)

410 ILCS 510/3

(410 ILCS 510/3) (from Ch. 144, par. 1553)

Sec. 3.

Any officer refusing to deliver the remains or body of any deceased
person when demanded in accordance with the provisions of this act,
shall be guilty of a petty offense; and for a third offense, or any
offense thereafter, the person shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(Source: P.A. 77-2709.)

410 ILCS 510/4

(410 ILCS 510/4) (from Ch. 144, par. 1554)

Sec. 4.

It shall be the duty of preceptors, professors and teachers,
and all officers of medical colleges or schools, public or private, who
shall receive any dead body or bodies, in pursuance of the provisions of
this act, decently to bury, in some public cemetery, or to cremate the
same in a furnace properly constructed for that purpose, the remains of
all bodies, after they shall have answered the purposes of study
aforesaid, and for any neglect or violation of the provisions of this
act, the party or parties so violating or neglecting, shall, be guilty
of a Class A misdemeanor.

(Source: P.A. 77-2709.)