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Deformed Human Beings; Exhibition - Mich. Comp. Laws Section 750.347

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Sec. 347.

Exhibition of deformed human beings, etc.--Any physician or other person, who shall expose or keep on exhibition any deformed human being or human monstrosity, except as used for scientific purposes before members of the medical profession or medical classes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Any person who shall so expose or exhibit in museums or elsewhere diseased or deformed human bodies, or parts thereof, or representations of the same, which would be indecent in the case of a living person, except as used for scientific purposes before members of the medical profession or medical classes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 750.347
Former Law: See sections 1 to 3 of Act 103 of 1903, being CL 1915, §§ 15518 to 15520; and CL 1929, §§ 16890 to 16892.

Last modified: March 17, 2013