Michigan Compiled Laws

Mich. Comp. Laws § 800.284 (2026)

Search of persons coming to correctional facility.

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LIQUOR, NARCOTICS, AND WEAPONS PROHIBITED IN PRISONS

Act 17 of 1909

800.284 Search of persons coming to correctional facility.

Sec. 4.

The chief administrator of a correctional facility may search, or have searched, any person coming to the correctional facility as a visitor, or in any other capacity, who is suspected of having any weapon or other implement which may be used to injure a prisoner or other person or in assisting a prisoner to escape from imprisonment, or any alcoholic liquor, prescription drug, poison, or controlled substance upon his or her person.

History: 1909, Act 17, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909 ;-- CL 1915, 1830 ;-- CL 1929, 17656 ;-- CL 1948, 800.284 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 343, Imd. Eff. Dec. 21, 1982

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1997–1997 · leading case: Boyd v. Civil Serv. Comm'n, 559 N.W.2d 342 (Mich. Ct. App. 1997).

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Boyd v. Civil Serv. Comm'n, 559 N.W.2d 342 (Mich. Ct. App. 1997). · cites it 2× “25a(2)(a); MSA 28.884(1)(2)(a), which authorizes the strip search of a person where “there is reasonable cause to believe that the person is concealing a .”

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