2012 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 6 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
6.080 Disobedient witnesses -- Attempt to corrupt legislator -- Penalty.

Download as PDF 6.080 Disobedient witnesses -- Attempt to corrupt legislator -- Penalty. Any person who, after being lawfully summoned by the General Assembly, either house or a committee of either, refuses to attend as a witness, or bring any paper proper to be used as evidence or who, being present, refuses to testify concerning any matter which may be a proper subject of inquiry, and any person who offers or gives a bribe to a member of the General Assembly, or attempts, by other corrupt means, to influence a member to cast or withhold his vote, shall, on conviction as provided by KRS 6.090 to 6.131, be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisoned in the Franklin County jail any time during the then current session of the General Assembly, or both. Effective: October 1, 1942 History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1993.