TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 27

EXECUTIVE POWER

18-2702.  Asking or receiving bribes. Every executive officer or person elected or appointed to an executive office who asks, receives or agrees to receive, any bribe upon any agreement or understanding that his vote, opinion or action upon any matter then pending, or which may be brought before him in his official capacity, shall be influenced thereby, is guilty of a felony and forfeits his office.

History:

[18-2702, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 899.]