Michigan § 338.1070 - Confidentiality of information; false reports, penalty.

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§ 338.1070. Confidentiality of information; false reports, penalty.

Sec. 20.(1)

Any person who is or has been an employee of a licensee shall not divulge to anyone other than his employer or former employer, or as the employer shall direct, except as he may be required by law, any information acquired by him during his employment in respect to any of the work to which he shall have been assigned by the employer. Any employee violating the provisions of this section and any employee who wilfully makes a false report to his employer in respect to any work is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(2)

Any manager, executive or employee of a licensee who wilfully sells, divulges or otherwise discloses information to other than clients, except as he may be required by law, any information acquired by him or them during employment by the client is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subjected to immediate suspension of license by the department and revocation of license upon satisfactory proof of the offense to the department.

Source: official Michigan text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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Section 338.1070 ("Confidentiality of information; false reports, penalty.") is part of the Michigan Compiled Laws, the codified statutory law of Michigan. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.

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