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If anyone is interested the Michigan anti-hazing law -Here it is. Sorry about the length but it is interesting reading.
bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled
"The Michigan penal code,"
(MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 411t.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 411t. (1) Except as provided in subsection (4), a
person who attends an educational institution shall not engage in
or participate in the hazing of another person.
(2) A person who violates subsection (1) is guilty of a crime
punishable as follows:
(a) If the violation results in physical injury, the person
is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not
more than 93 days or a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.
(b) If the violation results in serious injury, the person is
guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 3 years or a fine of not more than $2,500.00, or both.
(c) If the violation results in death, the person is guilty
of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years or a fine of not more than $10,000.00, or both.
(3) A criminal penalty provided for under this section may be imposed in addition to any penalty that may be imposed for any other criminal offense arising from the same conduct.
(4)This section does not apply to a person who is the subject of the hazing, regardless of whether the person voluntarily allowed himself or herself to be hazed.
(5)This section does not apply to an activity that is normal and customary in an athletic, physical education, military training, or similar program sanctioned by the educational institution.
(6) It is not a defense to a prosecution for a crime under this section that the person against whom the hazing was directed consented to or acquiesced in the hazing.
(7) As used in this section:
(a) "Educational institution" means a public or private is a middle school, junior high school, high school, vocational school, college, or university located in this state
(b) "Hazing" means an intentional, knowing, or reckless act by a person acting alone or acting with others that is directed against another person and endangers the mental or physical health or safety of the other person, and that is done for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliating with, holding office in, or maintaining membership in any organization. Subject to subsection (5), hazing includes any of
1 the following that is done for such a purpose:
2 (i) Physical brutality, such as whipping, beating, striking,
3 branding, electronic shocking, placing of a harmful substance on the body, or similar activity.
(ii) Physical activity, such as sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, or calisthenics, that subjects the other person to an unreasonable risk of harm or that adversely affects the mental or physical health or safety of the other person.
(iii) Activity involving consumption of a food, liquid, alcoholic beverage, liquor, drug, or other substance that subjects the other person to an unreasonable risk of harm or that adversely affects the mental or physical health or safety of the other person.
(iv) Activity that intimidates or threatens another person with ostracism, that subjects the other person to extreme mental stress, shame, or humiliation, that adversely affects the other person from enrolling in or remaining enrolled in a school or program, or that may reasonably be expected to cause another person to leave the organization or the educational institution rather than to submit to the activity.
(v) Activity that induces, causes, or requires another person to perform a duty or task that involves the commission of a crime or an act of hazing.
(c) "Organization" means a fraternity, sorority, association, corporation, order, society, corps, cooperative, club, service group, social group, athletic team, or similar group whose
1 members are primarily students at an educational institution.
2 (d) "Pledge" means a person who has been accepted by, is considering an offer of membership from, or is in the process of qualifying for membership in any organization.
(e) "Pledging" means any action or activity related to becoming a member of an organization.
(f) "Serious injury" means serious impairment of a body function as that term is defined in section 479a.
There is a precedent for a chapter with a revoked charter that does not hold the National Headquarters liable; however, the university, the local chapter and individual members were liable. Believe it or not in this case that I am making a reference the university actually tried to argue that the student was at fault for his own hazing since by joining a GLO he knew he was at risk of possible hazing.
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