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2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title L - OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Article 200 - (200.00 - 200.55) BRIBERY INVOLVING PUBLIC SERVANTS AND RELATED OFFENSES
200.12 - Bribe receiving in the first degree.
NY Penal L § 200.12 (2012) What's This?
§ 200.12 Bribe receiving in the first degree. A public servant is guilty of bribe receiving in the first degree when he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any benefit from another person upon an agreement or understanding that his 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. Bribe receiving in the first degree is a class B felony.
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