75 - Bribery of members of the legislature.

§ 75. Bribery  of  members  of the legislature.  A person who gives or  offers, or causes to be  given  or  offered,  a  bribe,  or  any  money,  property, or value of any kind, or any promise or agreement therefor, to  a  member  of  the  legislature,  or  to a person who has been elected a  member of the legislature,  or  attempts,  directly  or  indirectly,  by  menace,  deceit,  suppression  of  truth,  or  other  corrupt  means, to  influence such a member or person to give or withhold his  vote,  or  to  absent himself from the house of which he is, or is to become, a member,  or  from  any  committee  thereof, is punishable by imprisonment for not  more than ten years, or by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  five  thousand  dollars, or by both.