Code Section

Penal Code - PEN

PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25 - 680.4]

  ( Part 1 enacted 1872. )
  

TITLE 6. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE LEGISLATIVE POWER [85 - 88]

  ( Title 6 enacted 1872. )
  
85.  

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.)