(A) Illegal gambling, prostitution and similar offenses. It shall be unlawful for any person to:
(1) Engage in any act of prostitution;
(2) Attend, frequent, operate or be an occupant or inmate of any place where prostitution, illegal gambling, the illegal sale of alcoholic liquor, or where any other illegal business or occupation is permitted or conducted;
(3) Engage in prostitution, illegal gambling, the illegal sale of alcoholic liquor, or any other illegal business or occupation;
(4) Solicit or accost any person for the purpose of inducing the commission of any illegal act;
(5) Knowingly transport any person to a place where prostitution or illegal gambling is practiced, encouraged or allowed for the purpose of enabling the person to engage in gambling or in any illegal act; or
(6) Keep or maintain a gaming room, gaming tables or any policy of pool tickets, used for gaming; or knowingly suffer a gaming room, gaming tables or any policy or pool tickets to be kept, maintained, played or sold on any premises occupied or controlled by him or her without proper license.
(B) Indecent or obscene conduct. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in any indecent or obscene conduct in any public place.
(C) Open or indecent exposure. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly make any open or indecent exposure of his or her person or of the person of another.
(D) Disorderly intoxication. It shall be unlawful for any person to be intoxicated or under the influence of any controlled substance in a public place; and
(1) Endanger directly the safety of another person or of property; or
(2) Act in a manner that causes a public disturbance.
(E) Drug paraphernalia.
(1) Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COCAINE SPOON. A spoon with a bowl so small that the primary use for which it is reasonably adapted or designed, is to hold or administer cocaine, and which is so small as to be unsuited for the typical lawful uses of a spoon.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. Any drug, substance, or immediate precursor designated as a schedule 1-5 substance in Article 7, Controlled Substances, Public Act 368 of 1978, being M.C.L.A. §§ 333.7101 et seq. as amended, (commonly known as the Public Health Code).
DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. All equipment, products, and materials of any kind which are used, adapted for use, or designed for use, in planting, manufacturing, compounding, producing, testing, containing, concealing, injecting or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of the public health code of the state.
MARIJUANA OR HASHISH PIPE. A pipe characterized by a bowl which is so small that the primary use for which it is reasonably adapted or designed is the smoking of marijuana or hashish, rather than lawful smoking tobacco, and which may or may not be equipped with a screen.
(2) Sale, display, possession prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, display, furnish, supply, possess, give away or advertise any drug paraphernalia which is primarily adapted or designed for the administration or use of any controlled substance.
(3) Licensed persons; exemptions.
(a) This section shall not apply to a person licensed by the state board of pharmacy (administrator) pursuant to the Public Health Code.
(b) The person may possess, manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense or conduct research with controlled substances to the extent authorized by its license.
(c) The following persons need not be licensed and may lawfully possess controlled substances under this section:
1. An agent or employee of a licensed manufacturer while acting in the ordinary course of employment;
2. Common or contract carrier or warehousemen, or employee thereof while possessing in ordinary course of employment;
3. Persons suffering from diabetes, asthma or any other medical condition requiring self injection or pursuant to a lawful order of a practitioner; and
4. An officer or employee of a federal, state, political subdivision or agency of this state who is engaged in the enforcement of state or local laws relating to controlled substances and who is authorized to possess controlled substances in the course of that person’s official duties.
(Ord. 142, passed 9-20-1993; Ord. 182, § 2, passed 2-13-2012) Penalty, see § 133.99
Statutory reference:
Person is defined as a disorderly person, see M.C.L.A. § 750.167(1)(f)
Similar provisions, see M.C.L.A. § 750.335a