Bill Text: MI HB5205 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Crimes; other; state law prohibiting panhandlers; eliminate. Amends sec. 167 of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.167).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-13 - Printed Bill Filed 12/08/2011 [HB5205 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB5205-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5205

 

December 8, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Jackson, Womack, Switalski, Dillon and Santana and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

 

"The Michigan penal code,"

 

by amending section 167 (MCL 750.167).

 

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.

 

     (c) A window peeper.

 

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

 

     (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.

 

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

 

a public place.

 

     (g) A vagrant.

 

     (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) When a person, who has been convicted of refusing or

 

neglecting to support his or her family under this section, is then

 

charged with 1 or more subsequent violations within a period of 2

 

years, that person shall 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.