Bill Text: MI HB4537 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Crimes; disorderly conduct; penalties for disrupting a religious service; increase. Amends sec. 169 of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.169).

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 20-8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-08-25 - Referred To Second Reading [HB4537 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB4537-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4537

 

March 10, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Rick Jones, Agema, Opsommer, Moss, Denby, Genetski, Paul Scott, Haugh, Simpson, Kurtz, DeShazor, Lund, Polidori, Sheltrown, Horn, Crawford, McMillin, Calley, Lori, Proos, Daley, Meekhof, Mayes, Dean, Meadows, Hansen, Terry Brown and Knollenberg and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

 

"The Michigan penal code,"

 

by amending section 169 (MCL 750.169).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 169. Disturbance of religious meetings—Any A person who ,

 

on the first day of the week, or at any other time, shall wilfully

 

interrupt willfully interrupts or disturb disturbs any assembly of

 

people met for the worship of God, within the place of such in

 

which the meeting is held or out outside of it, shall be is guilty

 

of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 93

 

days or a fine of not more than $5,000.00, or both.