333.20198 Health facility, agency inpatient facility, or residential facility; prohibited conduct; violation as misdemeanor; penalty; nonapplicability of subsections (1)
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333.20198 Health facility, agency inpatient facility, or residential facility; prohibited conduct; violation as misdemeanor; penalty; nonapplicability of subsections
(1)and (2).
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