Sec. 18.
Section 17 does not apply to the dissemination of an ultra-violent explicit video game to a minor by any of the following:
(a) A parent or guardian who disseminates an ultra-violent explicit video game to his or her child or ward.
(b) An immediate family member of the minor who disseminates an ultra-violent explicit video game to the minor in the immediate family member's residence or the minor's residence.
(c) An individual who disseminates an ultra-violent video game to a minor who is a guest in the individual's residence.
(d) An individual who disseminates an ultra-violent explicit video game for a legitimate medical, scientific, governmental, or judicial purpose.
History: Add. 2005, Act 108, Eff. Dec. 1, 2005
Constitutionality: In Entertainment Software Association v Granholm, F Supp (2006), the United States district court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, permanently enjoined enforcement of an act regulating sexually explicit and ultra-violent video games as violating free speech rights and the due process requirement that a law be sufficiently definite to provide notice of the conduct prohibited that are granted in the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
Last modified: October 10, 2016