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Statutes > Michigan > Chapter-750 > Act-328-of-1931 > 328-1931-vi > Section-750-39THE MICHIGAN PENAL CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 328 of 1931
750.39 Patent medicines; publication in immoral or ambiguous language.
Sec. 39.
Publication of virtues of patent medicines in immoral or ambiguous language—Any person who shall print, stamp, or engrave on any cards, bills or posters for public display or advertisement, or publish in any newspaper in the state of Michigan, the virtues or applications and its or their effects of any patent and other simple or compound medicine, in language of immoral tendency or of ambiguous character, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Each day that such publication appears shall be deemed a separate offense under this section.
History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 750.39
Former Law: See section 1 of Act 106 of 1869, being CL 1871, § 7724; How., § 9310; CL 1897, § 11727; CL 1915, § 15521; and CL 1929, § 16883.
