§2280.  Penal provisions

Whoever sells or buys bodies of deceased persons or parts thereof, or in any way traffics in the same, or transmits or causes to be transmitted such bodies or parts thereof to any place outside the state, except as provided in this Part, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

This Section shall not apply to the transportation of human specimens outside the state for temporary use at scientific meetings or exhibits by any physician or dentist licensed to practice his profession in Louisiana, or by any teacher or investigator of anatomy in the employ of the institutions enumerated in R.S. 17:2271.