Laws of New York (Last Updated: November 21, 2014) |
PEN Penal |
Part THREE. SPECIFIC OFFENSES |
Title L. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION |
Article 200. BRIBERY INVOLVING PUBLIC SERVANTS AND RELATED OFFENSES |
Section 200.04. Bribery in the first degree
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A person is guilty of bribery in the first degree when he confers, or offers or agrees to confer, any benefit upon a public servant upon an agreement or understanding that such public servant's vote, opinion, judgment, action, decision or exercise of discretion as a public servant will thereby be influenced in the investigation, arrest, detention, prosecution or incarceration of any person for the commission or alleged commission of a class A felony defined in article two hundred twenty of the penal law or an attempt to commit any such class A felony. Bribery in the first degree is a class B felony.