Disorderly Persons - Criminal Misdemeanors
Some acts
that take place every day (the asking for money or loitering is what currently
comes to mind) can lead to criminal charges when the cops are in view, are
called, or just having a rough day. Imagine that you’re broke, homeless and
have no place to go. What do you? You sit around, or walk from place to place,
and either pick up money, work or ask for it in order to survive. If you choose
the option to ask for money then you have committed a crime.
Here in
the State of Michigan the following acts, pursuant to MCL § 750.167, can and
will bring about criminal charges:
(a) A
person of sufficient ability who refuses or neglects to support his or her
family.
(b) A common prostitute.
(c) A window peeper.
(d) A person who engages in
an illegal occupation or business.
(e) A
person who is intoxicated in a public place and who is either endangering
directly the safety of another person or of property or is acting in a manner
that causes a public disturbance.
(f) A person who is engaged
in indecent or obscene conduct in a public place.
(g) A vagrant.
(h) A person found begging in
a public place.
(i) A
person found loitering in a house of ill fame or prostitution or place where
prostitution or lewdness is practiced, encouraged, or allowed.
(j) A
person who knowingly loiters in or about a place where an illegal occupation or
business is being conducted.
(k) A
person who loiters in or about a police station, police headquarters building,
county jail, hospital, court building, or other public building or place for the
purpose of soliciting employment of legal services or the services of sureties
upon criminal recognizances.
(l) A
person who is found jostling or roughly crowding people unnecessarily in a
public place.
If an individual
commits one of the acts listed under MCL § 750.167 he or she will be charged as
a disorderly person. If convicted as a disorderly person the individual will
receive a misdemeanor on his or her record and receive up to 90 days in jail
and/or a $500.00 fine.
Moreover, an
individual found to be intoxicated or drunk while hunting with a firearm will
also be considered a disorderly person. This section of the statute indicates
that a firearm or other weapon used in conjunction with a valid hunting license
is required to be prosecuted under that particular section of disorderly person.
If convicted, the person will lose said weapon and will be unable to obtain a
hunting license for 3 years from the date of conviction. A conviction will
result in a misdemeanor and/or a possible fine.
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