Michigan Code § 333.20198

Health Facility, Agency Inpatient Facility, or Residential Facility; Prohibited Conduct; Violation as Misdemeanor; Penalty; Nonapplicability of Subsections (1) and (2).
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Sec. 20198.
(1) Subject to subsection (3), an individual shall not enter upon the premises of a health facility or agency that is an inpatient facility, an outpatient facility, or a residential facility for the purpose of engaging in an activity that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested and that actually causes a health facility or agency employee, patient, resident, or visitor to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested. This subsection does not prohibit constitutionally protected activity or conduct that serves a legitimate purpose.
(2) An individual who violates subsection (1) is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not less than $1,000.00 or more than $10,000.00, or both.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a nursing home covered under sections 21763(5) and 21799c(1)(c).
History: Add. 1998, Act 270, Eff. Mar. 23, 1999 Popular Name: Act 368

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