US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

     617.22 Concealing birth. 

    Every person who shall endeavor to conceal the birth of a 
 child by any disposition of its dead body, whether the child 
 died before or after its birth, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
 Every person who, having been convicted of endeavoring to 
 conceal the stillbirth of any issue, or the death of any issue 
 under the age of two years, shall, subsequent to that 
 conviction, endeavor to conceal any subsequent birth or death, 
 shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years. 

    HIST: (10179) RL s 4946; 1917 c 231 s 1; 1979 c 102 s 13; 1983 
 c 7 s 16 

Copyright 2005 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.