Offering a Gift to a Public Servant

From the Law Office of Alison Grinter in Dallas, Texas

Contents 1 Degree 2 Statute(s) 3 Caselaw 4 Collateral Consequences 5 Notes

Degree

Offering a Gift to a Public Servant is a Class A Misdemeanor

Statute(s)

§ 36.09. OFFERING GIFT TO PUBLIC SERVANT.

(a) A person commits an offense if he offers, confers, or agrees to confer any benefit on a public servant that he knows the public servant is prohibited by law from accepting.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974.
Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, § 1.01, eff. Sept. 1,
1994.

Caselaw

Collateral Consequences

Likely to be construed as a crime of moral turpitude

Notes

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