§ 750.145Minor; contributing to neglect or delinquency

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 Sec. 145.
    Contributing to neglect or delinquency of children—Any person who shall by any act, or
 by any word, encourage, contribute toward, cause or tend to cause any minor child under the
 age of 17 years to become neglected or delinquent so as to come or tend to come under the
 jurisdiction of the juvenile division of the probate court, as defined in section 2 of chapter 12a
 of Act No. 288 of the Public Acts of 1939, as added by Act No. 54 of the Public Acts of the
 First Extra Session of 1944, and any amendments thereto, whether or not such child shall in
 fact be adjudicated a ward of the probate court, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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