18.2-443 - Solicitation or acceptance of bribes by participants or by managers, coaches or trainers. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-443. Solicitation or acceptance of bribes by participants or bymanagers, coaches or trainers.

A professional or amateur participant or prospective participant in any game,contest or sport or a manager, coach or trainer of any team or individualparticipant or prospective participant in any such game, contest or sport,who solicits or accepts any valuable thing to influence him to lose or try tolose or cause to be lost or to limit his or his team's margin of victory inany game, contest or sport in which he is taking part, or expects to takepart, or has any duty or connection therewith, shall be guilty of a Class 5felony.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-403; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)