{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-6506","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 21-6506","heading":"Commercial bribery.","body":"(a) 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:\n(1) An agent or employee of another;\n(2) a person acting in a fiduciary capacity;\n(3) a lawyer, physician, accountant, appraiser or other professional adviser;\n(4) an officer, director, partner, manager or other participant in the affairs of a corporation, partnership or unincorporated association; or\n(5) an arbitrator or other purportedly disinterested adjudicator or referee.\n(b) Commercial bribery is a severity level 8, nonperson felony.\n(c) A person who violates the provisions of this section may also be prosecuted for, convicted of, and punished for theft.","path":["Chapter 21.—CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS","Article 65.—CRIMES AFFECTING BUSINESS"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch21/021_065_0006.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:11:13Z","sha256":"9fbfad69501974273d33982290fb0a689641a559b0e766b8a3f59910ab15700a","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-6505","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-6507"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}