Section 750.34 - Advertising relating to sexual diseases. - Michigan Statutes

THE MICHIGAN PENAL CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 328 of 1931

750.34 Advertising relating to sexual diseases.

Sec. 34.

A person who advertises in his or her own name or in the name of another person, firm or pretended firm, association, or corporation or pretended corporation, in a newspaper, pamphlet, circular, periodical, or other written or printed paper, or the owner, publisher, or manager of a newspaper or periodical who permits to be published or inserted in a newspaper or periodical owned or controlled by him or her, an advertisement of the treating or curing of venereal diseases, the restoration of “lost manhood” or “lost vitality or vigor”, or advertises in any manner that he or she is a specialist in diseases of the sexual organs, or diseases caused by sexual vice or masturbation, or in any diseases of like cause, or shall advertise in any manner any medicine, drug, compound, appliance, or any means whatever whereby sexual diseases of men or women may be cured or relieved, or miscarriage or abortion produced, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $1,000.00.

History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 750.34 ;-- Am. 2002, Act 672, Eff. Mar. 31, 2003
Former Law: See section 1 of Act 62 of 1911, being CL 1915, § 15512; and CL 1929, § 16877.