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CHAPTER 11
UNLAWFUL CONDUCT WITH RESPECT
TO LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Table of Contents
Sec. 1-102. (Formerly Sec. 53-151). Unlawful employment of state officers or persons paid by the state to influence legislative action.
Sec. 1-103. (Formerly Sec. 53-152). Threats to hinder legislation.
Secs. 1-104 to 1-119.
Sec. 1-102. (Formerly Sec. 53-151). Unlawful employment of state officers or
persons paid by the state to influence legislative action. No person, committee, association, organization or corporation shall employ any salaried commissioner or deputy
commissioner of this state, or any person receiving a salary or pay from the state for
services rendered and performed at Hartford, or shall give to any such person any advantage, aid, emolument, entertainment, money or other valuable thing for appearing for,
in behalf of or in opposition to, any measure, bill, resolution or petition pending before
the General Assembly or any committee thereof, or for advancing, supporting, advocating, or seeking to secure the passage, defeat or amendment of any such measure, bill,
resolution or petition pending in or before the General Assembly or any committee
thereof; nor shall any such salaried commissioner, deputy commissioner or other person
described in this section accept any such employment or perform any such service for
another, or accept aid, emolument, entertainment, money, advantage or other valuable
thing for or in consideration of any such service. Any person, committee, association,
organization or corporation, or any such salaried commissioner, deputy commissioner
or person receiving a salary or pay from the state for services rendered and performed
at Hartford, who violates any of the provisions of this section, shall be fined not less
than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. All complaints for the violation
of this section shall be made to the state's attorney for the judicial district of New Britain,
and said state's attorney shall, upon proof of probable guilt being shown, cause the arrest
of any such offender and present such offender or cause such offender to be presented
for trial before the superior court for the judicial district of New Britain.
(1949 Rev., S. 8598; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 112; P.A. 78-280, S. 112, 127; P.A. 88-230, S. 2, 12; P.A. 90-98, S. 1, 2; P.A.
93-142, S. 4, 7, 8; P.A. 95-220, S. 4—6; P.A. 00-99, S. 15, 154; P.A. 01-195, S. 3, 181.)
History: 1961 act deleted obsolete references to county commissioner; P.A. 78-280 changed "Hartford county" to "the
judicial district of Hartford-New Britain"; in 1979 Sec. 53-151 transferred to Sec. 1-102; P.A. 88-230 replaced references
to "the judicial district of Hartford-New Britain" and "the judicial district of Hartford-New Britain at New Britain" with
"the judicial district of New Britain", effective September 1, 1991; P.A. 90-98 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230
from September 1, 1991, to September 1, 1993; P.A. 93-142 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from September
1, 1993, to September 1, 1996, effective June 14, 1993; P.A. 95-220 changed the effective date of P.A. 88-230 from
September 1, 1996, to September 1, 1998, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 00-99 deleted references to the sheriff of any county,
effective December 1, 2000; P.A. 01-195 made technical changes for the purposes of gender neutrality, effective July
11, 2001.
Any person
who approaches the officers or agents of any corporation or any individual interested
in the passage or defeat of any bill for a public or private act, pending before the General
Assembly, or any committee thereof, and proposes or offers for any reward or compensation to aid or furnish assistance to such officers, agents or person, in the passage or
defeat of any such bill, or threatens to oppose or hinder the passage thereof unless
rewarded, compensated or employed, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars
or be imprisoned not more than five years or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 8489.)
History: In 1979 Sec. 53-152 transferred to Sec. 1-103.
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