US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

85.  Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe to any Member
of the Legislature, or to another person for him, or attempts by
menace, deceit, suppression of truth, or any corrupt means, to
influence a member in giving or withholding his vote, or in not
attending the house or any committee of which he is a member, is
punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three or four
years.



86.  Every member of either of the houses composing the Legislature
of this state who asks, receives, or agrees to receive, any bribe,
upon any understanding that his or her official vote, opinion,
judgment, or action shall be influenced thereby, or shall give, in
any particular manner, or upon any particular side of any question or
matter upon which he or she may be required to act in his or her
official capacity, or gives, or offers or promises to give, any
official vote in consideration that another Member of the Legislature
shall give this vote either upon the same or another question, is
punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or
four years and, in cases in which no bribe has been actually
received, by a restitution fine of not less than two thousand dollars
($2,000) or not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or, in
cases in which a bribe was actually received, by a restitution fine
of at least the actual amount of the bribe received or two thousand
dollars ($2,000), whichever is greater, or any larger amount of not
more than double the amount of any bribe received or ten thousand
dollars ($10,000), whichever is greater.
   In imposing a fine under this section, the court shall consider
the defendant's ability to pay the fine.




88.  Every Member of the Legislature convicted of any crime defined
in this  title, in addition to the punishment prescribed, forfeits
his or her office and is forever disqualified from holding any office
in this state.