HOUSE BILL No. 5632


     April 18, 2000, Introduced by Rep. Mortimer and referred to the Committee on House Oversight and Operations.


        A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

   "The Michigan penal code,"

   by amending section 34 (MCL 750.34); and to repeal acts and parts

   of acts.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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           Sec. 34.  Immoral advertising--Any  A person who  shall

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      advertise  ADVERTISES in his OR HER own name or in the name of

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      another person, firm,  or  pretended firm, association,

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      corporation, or pretended corporation, in any newspaper, pam-

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      phlet, circular, periodical, or other written or printed paper,

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      or the owner, publisher, or manager of any newspaper or periodi-

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      cal who  shall permit  PERMITS to be published or inserted in any

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      newspaper or periodical owned or controlled by him OR HER, an

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      advertisement of the treating or curing of venereal diseases  ,

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      the restoration of "Lost manhood" or "Lost vitality or vigor", 


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      or  shall advertise  A PERSON WHO ADVERTISES in any manner that

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      he OR SHE is a specialist in diseases of the sexual organs,  or 

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      diseases caused by sexual vice, self-abuse, or  in  any diseases

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      of like cause, or  shall advertise  ADVERTISES in any manner any

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      medicine, drug, compound, appliance, or any OTHER means  whatever

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      whereby  THAT CURES OR RELIEVES sexual diseases,  of men or women

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      may be cured or relieved, or  miscarriage, or abortion produced,

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       shall be  IS guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment

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       in the county jail  OF not more than 1 year or by a fine of not

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      more than  500 dollars  $500.00.

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           Enacting section 1.  Sections 35, 36, 37, and 39 of the

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      Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.35, 750.36, 750.37, and

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      750.39, are repealed.































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