Senate Status:
2019 Statute
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21-6506. (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: (1) An agent or employee of another; (2) a person acting in a fiduciary capacity; (3) a lawyer, physician, accountant, appraiser or other professional adviser; (4) an officer, director, partner, manager or other participant in the affairs of a corporation, partnership or unincorporated association; or (5) an arbitrator or other purportedly disinterested adjudicator or referee. (b) Commercial bribery is a severity level 8, nonperson felony. (c) A person who violates the provisions of this section may also be prosecuted for, convicted of, and punished for theft. |
History: L. 2010, ch. 136, § 237; July 1, 2011. |
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