Statute · California Health and Safety Code
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 24185 — Human Cloning
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 24185
- Type
- Statute
- Source
- California Health and Safety Code
- Jurisdiction
- California
- Date
- 2003-01-01
- Current through
- Nov 2, 2026 (California Legislative Counsel)
(a) No person shall clone a human being or engage in human reproductive cloning.
Citator
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 24185 — Human Cloning is in force in the current edition of the Code, and nothing recorded condemns it.
(a) No person shall clone a human being or engage in human reproductive cloning.
(b) No person shall purchase or sell an ovum, zygote, embryo, or fetus for the purpose of cloning a human being.
(c) For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Clone” means the practice of creating or attempting to create a human being by transferring the nucleus from a human cell from whatever source into a human or nonhuman egg cell from which the nucleus has been removed for the purpose of, or to implant, the resulting product to initiate a pregnancy that could result in the birth of a human being.
(2) “Department” means the State Department of Health Services.
(3) “Human reproductive cloning” means the creation of a human fetus that is substantially genetically identical to a previously born human being. The department may adopt, interpret, and update regulations, as necessary, for purposes of more precisely defining the procedures that constitute human reproductive cloning.