HB-4709, As Passed House, December 2, 2015HB-4709, As Passed Senate, December 2, 2015

HOUSE BILL No. 4709

June 11, 2015, Introduced by Rep. Bizon and referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice.

     A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

"The Michigan penal code,"

by amending section 347 (MCL 750.347).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 347. Exhibition of deformed human beings, etc.—Any A

physician or other person , who shall expose or keep on exhibition

exposes or exhibits any deformed human being or human monstrosity,

who is disabled or disfigured, except as used for scientific

purposes before members of the medical profession or medical

classes, shall be is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by

imprisonment for not more than 90 days or a fine of not more than

$500.00, or both. Any person who shall so expose or exhibit in

museums or elsewhere diseased or deformed human bodies, or parts

thereof, or representations of the same, which would be indecent in

the case of a living person, except as used for scientific purposes

before members of the medical profession or medical classes, shall

be guilty of a misdemeanor.

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

after the date it is enacted into law.