Bill Text: MI HB6170 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Crimes; disorderly conduct; common prostitute; remove from crime of disorderly persons. Amends sec. 167 of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.167).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-08-15 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/12/2018 [HB6170 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB6170-Introduced.html
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.
