Folks,

Need some guidance here. Fairly new to SR (having ran a SR3 game once) and I'm looking for a list of UCAS laws/fines/jail time (specifically, looking for illegal organ harvesting and dispensing meds illegally for my street doc character). I remember seeing weapons laws and such in SR3 in the main book...do laws exist for the above subjects?

Thanks in advance!

Gunbunny

The only 2 places I can remember are (maybey) Neo-anarchist Guide to North America and possibly Feilds of Fire.

The Lone Star source book would be where I'd start looking.

The Neo-A Guide to Real life is another possibility or maybe the Sprawl Survival Guide if none of the previously mentioned sources work.

The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America states that "any drug defined as physically addictive with the exception of alcohol and nicotine, thanks to almost a century of high-powered lobbying) is a federally controlled substance, and may only be dispensed legally by a state-licenced biotechnician. Similarly, any biotechnical device that induces permanent neurological change is controlled in the UCAS."

Class M: controlled substances or biotechnical devices.
Possession: 500
Transport: 1000

That is all I could find, though if the doc is harvesting he might also face kidnapping and murder charges, which are major felonies and the death penalty may be invoked.

Hope that helps.

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Thanks, now I've learned something today and can go back to bed. I love it when that happens.

It would be organ harvesting from the Morgue. I'll scour the 'Net to see if there are any current Federal (US) laws against it, as I would imagine something fairly close to it would exist in UCAS Seattle. Thanks!

Gunbunny

By the time people make it to the morgue, their organs are often not in usable shape...

Depends on the organ.

Ironically, ShadowTech featured the Penal Code for Seattle and the UCAS.

If nothing else a theft charge could apply, possibly grave robbing charges.

I have to agree with Shrike30, The vast majority of organs are in no shape by the time the body has reached the morgue. You could get away with skin and possibly corneas, but not much more.

Bear in mind where bodies in a morgue come from. Dead folk from outside the hospital (probably been dead for some time) or folk that die in the hospital during treatment (something wrong with them, and they don't exactly rush them to the morgue).

Usable organs are likely going to be taken from patients before the bodies get to the morgue however, you could just pinch the organs themselves from their ice box.

Of course the freshness of the corpse is less important if you're selling the parts to ghouls. Remember the necromancer's motto "re-use, re-cycle, re-animate".

If you're a mean DM, then you solve characters who get nabbed by the 'Star the easy way.

"Lacking a SIN, you are soon 'dissapeared' into the organ harvesting and used cyber markets."

In Germany (today), removing a part from a dead person is punishable by up to 6 months prison or by a heavy fine depending on your income.

If someone would do in it a organized way, it might fall under other paragraphs like "comitting serious crimes in an organized association", which would be punishable by several years in prison (I am not sure if i got the legally terms right).

Just recently some body-harvesters from New Jersey (I think) were convicted for "unlawful extraction". Look them up on CNN.com and see what their punishment was. That would serve as a good indication of what UCAS law would be.