Bill Text: MI SB0706 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Liquor; licenses; nudity at on-premises licensed establishments; prohibit. Amends 1998 PA 58 (MCL 436.1101 - 436.2303) by adding sec. 916a.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-12-04 - Referred To Committee On Regulatory Reform [SB0706 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-SB0706-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 706
December 4, 2013, Introduced by Senators JONES, SCHUITMAKER, JANSEN and GREEN and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.
A bill to amend 1998 PA 58, entitled
"Michigan liquor control code of 1998,"
(MCL 436.1101 to 436.2303) by adding section 916a.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 916a. (1) The purpose of this section is to promote the
health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of this state
and to establish reasonable and uniform regulations to prevent the
deleterious secondary effects that are likely to arise from the
combination of adult entertainment and alcoholic liquor within this
state, including, but not limited to, health and safety problems in
and around public places of adult entertainment and dangerous and
unlawful conduct in and around public places of adult
entertainment. This section is unrelated to the suppression of
expression and shall not effect or impose a limitation or
restriction on the content or restrict or deny access by adults to
adult entertainment.
(2) An on-premises licensee shall not allow in or upon the
licensed premises a person who knowingly or intentionally appears
before a patron or patrons in a state of nudity. An on-premises
licensee shall not exhibit in or upon the licensed premises through
any mechanical or electronic image-producing device, a film, video
cassette, digital video disk, or other video reproduction
characterized by an emphasis on the display of specified sexual
activities, specified anatomical areas, or other types of nudity.
This prohibition does not apply to any publicly broadcast
television transmission from a federally licensed station.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) "Adult entertainment" means any exhibition that involves a
person in a state of nudity.
(b) "Nudity" means exposure to public view of the whole or
part of the pubic region; the whole or part of the anus; the whole
or part of the buttocks; the whole or part of the genitals; or the
breast area including the nipple or more than 1/2 of the area of
the breast.
(c) "Specified anatomical areas" means less than completely
and opaquely covered and exposed for public view of the whole or
part of the pubic region; the whole or part of the anus; the whole
or part of the buttocks; the whole or part of the genitals; or the
breast area including the nipple or more than 1/2 of the area of
the breast.
(d) "Specified sexual activities" means where the person
performs, or simulates performance of, sexual intercourse,
masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, fellatio, or cunnilingus.
