§ 750.140Children; exhibition; employ; apprentice

Sec. 140.
    Any person having the care, custody, or control of any child under 16 years of age, who
 shall exhibit, use, or employ, or who shall apprentice, give away, let out, or otherwise dispose
 of the child to any person in or for the vocation, service, or occupation of rope or wire
 walking, gymnast, contortionist, rider, or acrobat, dancing, or begging in any place
 whatsoever, or for any obscene, indecent, or immoral purpose, exhibition, or practice
 whatsoever, or for any exhibition injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limb of the
 child, or who shall cause, procure, or encourage the child to engage therein, and any person


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 who shall take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit, or have in custody any child for any of the
 purposes mentioned in this section, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment
 for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $1,000.00.