{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-800.282","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 800.282","heading":"Persons not in violation of MCL 800.281; limitation on wine for use of clergy; applicability of MCL 800.281(3).","body":"Sec. 2.\n\nA person is not in violation of section 1 if all of the following occur:\n\nA licensed physician certifies in writing that the alcoholic liquor, prescription drug, or controlled substance is necessary for the health of the prisoner or employee.\n\nThe certificate contains the following information:\n\nThe quantity of the alcoholic liquor, prescription drug, or controlled substance which is to be furnished to the prisoner or employee.\n\nThe name of the prisoner or employee.\n\nThe time when the alcoholic liquor, prescription drug, or controlled substance is to be furnished.\n\nThe reason why the alcoholic liquor, prescription drug, or controlled substance is needed.\n\nThe certificate has been delivered to the chief administrator of the correctional facility to which the prisoner is assigned or at which the employee works.\n\nThe chief administrator of the correctional facility or the designee of the chief administrator approves in advance the sale, giving, furnishing, bringing, or possession of the alcoholic liquor, prescription drug, or controlled substance.\n\nThe sale, giving, furnishing, bringing, or possession of the alcoholic liquor, prescription drug, or controlled substance is in compliance with the certificate.\n\nNot more than 2 ounces of wine for the use of the clergy may be brought into or onto a correctional facility by a person of the clergy of any religious denomination for clergy purposes.\n\nSection 1(3) shall not apply to the bringing of alcoholic liquor, prescription drugs, or controlled substances into or onto a correctional facility for the ordinary hospital supply of the correctional facility.\n\nSection 1(3) shall not apply to the bringing of any alcoholic liquor, prescription drug, poison, or controlled substance into or onto a privately operated community corrections center or resident home which houses prisoners for the use of the owner, operator, or nonprisoner resident of that center or home if the owner or operator lives in the center or home, or for the use of a nonprisoner guest of the owner, operator, or nonprisoner resident.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 800","Act Act-17-of-1909"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-800-282","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"c953776a7a6d2f11ae86c6e44f7ee91044424653f98b2572880d4e5f8bd75966","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-800.281a","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-800.283"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}