HOUSE BILL No. 5176

 

 

October 25, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Brann and referred to the Committee on Law and Justice.

 

     A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

 

"The Michigan penal code,"

 

(MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 411x.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 411x. (1) A person who sets a contraption or device that

 

is intentionally made or set in a manner that renders the

 

contraption or device capable of causing injury or death to an

 

individual and who leaves, or permits that contraption or device to

 

be left, in or about any place that other individuals may come into

 

contact with that device is guilty of a felony punishable by

 

imprisonment for not more than 2 years or a fine of not more than

 

$1,000.00, or both.

 

     (2) A person who violates subsection (1) and by that violation

 

causes the injury of another individual is guilty of a felony

 

punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years or a fine of


not more than $5,000.00, or both.

 

     (3) A person who violates subsection (1) and by that violation

 

causes the serious impairment of a body function of another

 

individual is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not

 

more than 10 years or a fine of not more than $7,500.00, or both.

 

As used in this subsection, "serious impairment of a body function"

 

means that term as defined in section 58c of the Michigan vehicle

 

code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.58c.

 

     (4) A person who violates subsection (1) and by that violation

 

causes the death of another individual is guilty of a felony

 

punishable by imprisonment for not more than 15 years or a fine of

 

not more than $10,000.00, or both.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.