California Penal Code Section 85

CA Penal Code § 85 (2017)  

Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe to any Member of the Legislature, any member of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district, or other special district, or to another person for the member, or attempts by menace, deceit, suppression of truth, or any corrupt means, to influence a member in giving or withholding his or her vote, or in not attending the house or any committee of which he or she is a member, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three or four years.

(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 435, Sec. 1. Effective September 24, 2006.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018