HOUSE BILL No. 5655


     April 18, 2000, Introduced by Reps. Lemmons, Spade, Baird, Hanley, O'Neil, Lockwood, Minore, Jacobs, Bovin, Dennis,
Sheltrown, Rivet, Pestka, Frank, Neumann, Rison, Reeves, Clark, Hale, Clarke, Hansen, Wojno, Schermesser, DeHart, Daniels,
Stallworth, Price, Prusi and Scott and referred to the Committee on Criminal Law and Corrections.


        A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

   "The Michigan penal code,"

   (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 136c.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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           SEC. 136C.  (1) A PERSON WHO IS THE PARENT, GUARDIAN, OR

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      OTHER PERSON WHO CARES FOR, HAS CUSTODY OF, OR HAS AUTHORITY OVER

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      AN INDIVIDUAL REGARDLESS OF THE LENGTH OF TIME THAT THE INDIVID-

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      UAL IS CARED FOR, IN THE CUSTODY OF, OR SUBJECT TO THE AUTHORITY

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      OF THAT PERSON SHALL NOT TRANSFER OR ATTEMPT TO TRANSFER THE

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      LEGAL OR PHYSICAL CUSTODY OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO ANOTHER PERSON FOR

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      MONEY OR OTHER VALUABLE CONSIDERATION, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PER-

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      MITTED BY LAW.

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           (2) A PERSON SHALL NOT ACQUIRE OR ATTEMPT TO ACQUIRE THE

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      LEGAL OR PHYSICAL CUSTODY OF AN INDIVIDUAL FOR MONEY OR OTHER

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      VALUABLE CONSIDERATION TO A PERSON WHO IS THE PARENT, GUARDIAN,


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      OR OTHER PERSON WHO CARES FOR, HAS CUSTODY OF, OR HAS AUTHORITY

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      OVER AN INDIVIDUAL REGARDLESS OF THE LENGTH OF TIME THAT THE

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      INDIVIDUAL IS CARED FOR, IN THE CUSTODY OF, OR SUBJECT TO THE

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      AUTHORITY OF THAT PERSON, OR TO A THIRD PARTY, EXCEPT AS OTHER-

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      WISE PERMITTED BY LAW.

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           (3) A PERSON WHO VIOLATES THIS SECTION IS GUILTY OF A FELONY

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      PUNISHABLE BY IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE OR ANY TERM OF YEARS.










































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