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Michigan State Law for Protection of Libraries

Michigan State Law for Protection of 
Libraries

Am. 1911, Aug. 1, Act 58, Section 1. Any person who shall wilfully, maliciously or wantonly tear, deface or mutilate, or write upon, or by other means injure or mar any book, pamphlet, map, chart, painting, picture, photograph, periodical, newspaper, magazine, manuscript or exhibit or any part thereof belonging to or loaned to any public library, or to the library of any literary, scientific, historical or library society or association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a FINE of not less than two dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by IMPRISONMENT in the county jail not more than sixty days in the discretion of the court; and all justices of the peace in their respective counties shall have jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all prosecutions under this act.

14692. MISAPPROPRIATION-PENALTY. Am. 1b. Section 2. Any person who shall procure, or take in any way from any public library or the library of any literary, scientific, historical or library society or association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, any book, pamphlet, map, chart, painting, picture, photograph, periodical, newspaper, magazine, manuscript or exhibit or any part thereof, with intent to convert the same to his own use, or with intent to defraud the owner thereof, or who having procured or taken any such book, pamphlet, map, chart, painting, picture, photograph, periodical, newspaper, magazine, manuscript or fraudulently deprive the owner thereof, shall be punished by a FINE not to exceed one hundred dollars or by IMPRISONMENT in the county jail not more than three months in the discretion of the court.

Section 3. A printed copy of this act shall be posted in at least three conspicuous places in such library.

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