Current through 2024 Session Acts Chapter 111 and 2024 Special Session Acts Chapter 4
Section 21-6506 - Commercial bribery(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.L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-4405; L. 1970, ch. 124, § 9; L. 1992, ch. 239, § 227; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 175; July 1; L. 2010, ch. 136, § 237, 7/1/2011.