Section 75. Bribery of members of the legislature  


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  • A person who gives or
      offers, or causes to be  given  or  offered,  a  bribe,  or  any  money,
      property, or value of any kind, or any promise or agreement therefor, to
      a  member  of  the  legislature,  or  to a person who has been elected a
      member of the legislature,  or  attempts,  directly  or  indirectly,  by
      menace,  deceit,  suppression  of  truth,  or  other  corrupt  means, to
      influence such a member or person to give or withhold his  vote,  or  to
      absent himself from the house of which he is, or is to become, a member,
      or  from  any  committee  thereof, is punishable by imprisonment for not
      more than ten years, or by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  five  thousand
      dollars, or by both.