{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-6507","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 21-6507","heading":"Sports bribery.","body":"(a) Sports bribery is:\n(1) Conferring, or offering or agreeing to confer, any benefit upon a sports participant with intent to influence such participant not to give such participant's best efforts in a sports contest;\n(2) conferring or offering or agreeing to confer, any benefit upon a sports official with intent to influence such official to perform such official's duties improperly;\n(3) accepting, agreeing to accept or soliciting by a sports participant of any benefit from another person upon an understanding that such sports participant will thereby be influenced not to give such participant's best efforts in a sports contest;\n(4) accepting, agreeing to accept or soliciting by a sports official any benefit from another person upon an understanding that such official will perform such official's duties improperly; or\n(5) match-fixing, as defined in K.S.A. 74-8702, and amendments thereto.\n(b) Sports bribery as defined in:\n(1) Subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2) is a severity level 9, nonperson felony;\n(2) subsection (a)(3) or (a)(4) is a class A nonperson misdemeanor; and\n(3) subsection (a)(5) is a severity level 5, nonperson felony.\n(c) As used in this section and K.S.A. 21-6508, and amendments thereto:\n(1) \"Sports contest\" means any professional or amateur sports or athletic game or contest viewed by the public;\n(2) \"sports participant\" means any person who participates or expects to participate in a sports contest as a player, contestant or member of a team, or as a coach, manager, trainer or other person directly associated with a player, contestant or team; and\n(3) \"sports official\" means any person who acts or expects to act in a sports contest as an umpire, referee, judge or otherwise to officiate at a sports contest.","path":["Chapter 21.—CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS","Article 65.—CRIMES AFFECTING BUSINESS"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch21/021_065_0007.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:11:13Z","sha256":"98a1a99c651cfe9971bcc07b3f877ee9fdd51555ac81e2ff90c98f8312958cf0","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-6506","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-21-6508"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}