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     617.28 Certain medical advertisements.  

    Subdivision 1.    Placing advertisement; penalty.  Any 
 person who shall advertise, in the person's own name or in the 
 name of another person, firm or pretended firm, association, 
 corporation or pretended corporation, in any newspaper, 
 pamphlet, circular, or other written or printed paper, or the 
 owner, publisher, or manager of any newspaper or periodical who 
 shall permit to be inserted or published in any newspaper or 
 periodical owned or controlled by the owner, publisher, or 
 manager, the treatment or curing of venereal diseases, the 
 restoration of "lost virility" or "lost vitality," or shall 
 advertise in any manner that the person is a specialist in 
 diseases of the sexual organs, or diseases caused by sexual 
 weakness, self-abuse, or excessive sexual indulgence, or in any 
 disease of like causes, or who shall advertise in any manner any 
 medicine, drug compound, appliance or any means whatever whereby 
 it is claimed that sexual diseases of men and women may be cured 
 or relieved, or miscarriage or abortion produced, shall be 
 guilty of a gross misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of 
 not less than $50 nor more than $3,000 or by imprisonment in the 
 county jail for not more than six months.  

    Subd. 2.    Publication; penalty.  Any person 
 publishing, distributing, or causing to be distributed or 
 circulated, any of the advertising matter hereinabove 
 prohibited, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as 
 prescribed in subdivision 1.  

    HIST: (10191,10192) 1909 c 162 s 1,2; 1984 c 628 art 3 s 11; 
 1986 c 444 

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