Any member of the General Assembly or any other executive, judicial, ministerial or legislative officer of this state or of any county or city, including members of boards of education and subdistrict trustees, who takes or agrees to take any bribe to do or omit to do any act in his official capacity shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from the right of suffrage for ten (10) years.
KRS 432.350
Giving and taking bribes
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Fanelli v. Commonwealth (1967)
Most recently applied in Commonwealth v. Smith (March 1976)
History: Amended 1974 Ky
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