Illinois Code § 720 ILCS 5/12-20.5

Dismembering a human body.
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(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.

Illinois Anatomical Gift Act;
substances made from human body parts, for the use in medical or scientific research, treatment, or diagnosis;
office or coroner's office acting within the scope of their employment while performing an autopsy;
embalmer while performing acts authorized by the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code;
physicians performed in good faith and according to the usual and customary standards of medical practice in an attempt to resuscitate a life; or
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.

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