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Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS

Chapter 570

< > Effective - 01 Jan 1979, 2 histories, see footnote (history) bottom

  *570.150.  Until December 31, 2016 — Commercial bribery. — 1.  A person commits the crime of commercial bribery:

  (1)  If he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any benefit as consideration for knowingly violating or agreeing to violate a duty of fidelity to which he is subject as:

  (a)  Agent or employee of another;

  (b)  Trustee, guardian or other fiduciary;

  (c)  Lawyer, physician, accountant, appraiser or other professional adviser or informant;

  (d)  Officer, director, partner, manager or other participant in the direction of the affairs of an incorporated or unincorporated association; or

  (e)  Arbitrator or other purportedly disinterested adjudicator or referee;

  (2)  If as a person who holds himself out to the public as being engaged in the business of making disinterested selection, appraisal or criticism of commodities or services, he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any benefit to influence his selection, appraisal or criticism;

  (3)  If he confers or offers or agrees to confer any benefit the acceptance of which would be criminal under subdivisions (1) and (2) of this section.

  2.  Commercial bribery is a class A misdemeanor.

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(L. 1977 S.B. 60)

Effective 1-01-79

*This section was amended by S.B. 491, 2014, effective 1-01-17.  Due to the delayed effective date, both versions of this section are printed here.


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