§ 120-86. Bribery, etc. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 120‑86.  Bribery, etc.

(a)        No person shalloffer or give to a legislator or a member of a legislator's immediate family,or to a business with which the legislator is associated, and no legislatorshall solicit or receive, anything of monetary value, including a gift, favoror service or a promise of future employment, based on any understanding thatthe legislator's vote, official actions or judgment would be influencedthereby, or where it could reasonably be inferred that the thing of value wouldinfluence the legislator in the discharge of the legislator's duties.

(b)        It shall beunlawful for the partner, client, customer, or employer of a legislator or theagent of that partner, client, customer, or employer, directly or indirectly,to threaten economically that legislator with the intent to influence thelegislator in the discharge of the legislator's duties.

(b1)      It shall be unlawfulfor any person, directly or indirectly, to threaten economically another personin order to compel the threatened person to attempt to influence a legislatorin the discharge of the legislator's duties.

(c)        It shall beunethical for a legislator to contact the partner, client, customer, oremployer of another legislator if the purpose of the contact is to cause thepartner, client, customer, or employer, directly or indirectly, to threateneconomically that legislator with the intent to influence that legislator inthe discharge of the legislator's duties.

(d)        Repealed by SessionLaws 2006‑201, s. 6, effective January 1, 2007.

(e)        Violation ofsubsection (a), (b), or (b1) is a Class F felony. Violation of subsection (c)is not a crime but is punishable under G.S. 120‑103.1. (1975, c. 564, s. 1; 1983, c.780, s. 2; 1993, c. 539, s. 1302; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 1997‑443,s. 19.27(a); 2006‑201, s. 6.)