§ 11-7-4 - Bribery of agent, employee, or public official. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-7-4

   § 11-7-4  Bribery of agent, employee, orpublic official. – (a) No person shall corruptly give or offer any gift or valuable considerationto any person in public or private employ, or any public official as aninducement or reward for doing or forebearing to do, or for having done orforborne to do, any act in relation to the business of his or her principal,master, or employer, or the state, city, or town of which he or she is anofficial, or for showing or forbearing to show favor or disfavor to any personin relation to the business of his or her principal, master, employer, orstate, city, or town of which he or she is an official.

   (b) It shall not be a defense to a prosecution under thissection that the person did not have the power or authority to perform the actor omission for which the reward or inducement was offered, solicited,accepted, or agreed upon.