HOUSE BILL No. 6170

 

 

June 12, 2018, Introduced by Reps. Chang, Sabo, Cochran, Lasinski, Brinks, Guerra, Geiss, Greig, Green, Pagan, Yancey, Gay-Dagnogo, Wittenberg, Rabhi and Jones and referred to the Committee on Law and Justice.

 

     A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

 

"The Michigan penal code,"

 

by amending section 167 (MCL 750.167), as amended by 2014 PA 199.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 167. (1) A person is a disorderly person if the person is

 

any of the following:

 

     (a) A person of sufficient ability who refuses or neglects to

 

support his or her family.

 

     (b) A common prostitute.

 

     (b) (c) A window peeper.

 

     (c) (d) A person who engages in an illegal occupation or

 

business.

 

     (d) (e) A person who is intoxicated in a public place and who

 


is either endangering directly the safety of another person or of

 

property or is acting in a manner that causes a public disturbance.

 

     (e) (f) A person who is engaged in indecent or obscene conduct

 

in a public place.

 

     (f) (g) A vagrant.

 

     (g) (h) A person found begging in a public place.

 

     (h) (i) A person found loitering in a house of ill fame or

 

prostitution or place where prostitution or lewdness is practiced,

 

encouraged, or allowed.

 

     (i) (j) A person who knowingly loiters in or about a place

 

where an illegal occupation or business is being conducted.

 

     (j) (k) A person who loiters in or about a police station,

 

police headquarters building, county jail, hospital, court

 

building, or other public building or place for the purpose of

 

soliciting employment of legal services or the services of sureties

 

upon criminal recognizances.

 

     (k) (l) A person who is found jostling or roughly crowding

 

people unnecessarily in a public place.

 

     (2) If a person who has been convicted of refusing or

 

neglecting to support his or her family under this section is

 

charged with subsequent violations within a period of 2 years, that

 

person shall must be prosecuted as a second offender or third and

 

subsequent offender as provided in section 168, if the family of

 

that person is then receiving public relief or support.

 

     (3) A mother's breastfeeding of a child or expressing breast

 

milk does not constitute indecent or obscene conduct under

 

subsection (1) regardless of whether or not her areola or nipple is


visible during or incidental to the breastfeeding or expressing of

 

breast milk.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.