§ 15-70. Contributing to neglect or delinquency of children.

Any parent, legal guardian or other person having the care or custody of a minor child under the age of seventeen (17) years who shall by any act, or by any word, or by the failure to act, or by lack of supervision and control over the minor child, encourage, contribute toward, cause or tend to cause the minor child 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 by Act No 54 of the Public Acts of Michigan of 1944, First Extra Session (MCL 712A.1 et seq., 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 civil infraction.

(Ord. No. 284, § 1, eff. 10-7-2010)