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200.12 – Bribe receiving in the first degree

§ 200.12 Bribe receiving in the first degree.

A public servant is guilty of bribe receiving in the first degree when
he or she solicits, accepts or agrees to accept: (a) any benefit from
another person upon an agreement or understanding that his or her 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 this part or an attempt to commit any such class A felony; or
(b) any benefit valued in excess of one hundred thousand dollars from
another person 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.

Bribe receiving in the first degree is a class B felony.

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