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N.Y. Penal Law § 200.12: Bribe receiving in the first degree

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  1. Penal Law
  2. Part 3. Specific Offenses
  3. Title L. Offenses Against Public Administration
  4. Article 200. Bribery Involving Public Servants and Related Offenses

§ 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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