Section 722.688 - Exceptions. - Michigan Statutes

DISSEMINATING, EXHIBITING, OR DISPLAYING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATTER TO MINORS (EXCERPT)
Act 33 of 1978

722.688 Exceptions.

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.