Section 333.21527 - Sexual assault evidence kit. - Michigan Statutes

PUBLIC HEALTH CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 368 of 1978

333.21527 Sexual assault evidence kit.

Sec. 21527.

(1) If an individual alleges to a physician or other member of the attending or admitting staff of a hospital that within the preceding 24 hours the individual has been the victim of criminal sexual conduct under sections 520a to 520l of the Michigan penal code, Act No. 328 of the Public Acts of 1931, being sections 750.520a to 750.520 l of the Michigan Compiled Laws, the attending health care personnel responsible for examining or treating the individual immediately shall inform the individual of the availability of a sexual assault evidence kit and, with the consent of the individual, shall perform or have performed on the individual the procedures required by the sexual assault evidence kit.

(2) For the purposes of this section, the administration of a sexual assault evidence kit is not a medical procedure.

(3) As used in this section, “sexual assault evidence kit” means a standardized set of equipment and written procedures approved by the department of state police which have been designed to be administered to an individual principally for the purpose of gathering evidence of sexual conduct, which evidence is of the type offered in court by the forensic science division of the department of state police for prosecuting a case of criminal sexual conduct under sections 520a to 520 l of the Michigan penal code, Act No. 328 of the Public Acts of 1931.

History: Add. 1988, Act 3, Imd. Eff. Feb. 5, 1988
Popular Name: Act 368