SENATE BILL No. 1033

January 30, 2002, Introduced by Senator MC COTTER and referred to the Committee on

Government 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:

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

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

3 another person, firm, or pretended firm, association,

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

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

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

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

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

9 advertisement of the treating or curing of venereal diseases ,

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

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1 or shall advertise A PERSON WHO ADVERTISES in any manner that

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

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

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

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

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

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

8 shall be IS guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment

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

10 more than 500 dollars $500.00.

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

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

13 750.39, are repealed.

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