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N.Y. Penal Law § 200.27: Receiving reward for official misconduct 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

§ 200.27 Receiving reward for official misconduct in the first degree.

A public servant is guilty of receiving reward for official misconduct

in the first degree when he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any

benefit from another person for having violated his duty as a public

servant 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 the attempt to commit any such class A felony.

Receiving reward for official misconduct in the first degree is a

class C felony.

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