Commercial bribery is conferring, offering or agreeing to confer, or soliciting, accepting or agreeing to accept, any benefit as consideration for knowingly violating or agreeing to violate a duty of fidelity or trust by:
(a) An agent or employee of another;
(b) A person acting in a fiduciary capacity;
(c) A lawyer, physician, accountant, appraiser or other professional adviser;
(d) An officer, director, partner, manager, or other participant in the affairs of a corporation, partnership or unincorporated association; or
(e) An arbitrator or other purportedly disinterested adjudicator or referee.
Commercial bribery is a severity level 8, nonperson felony.
History: L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-4405; L. 1970, ch. 124, § 9; L. 1992, ch. 239, § 227; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 175; July 1.
Email
Print