Rewarding official misconduct in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 200.20 Rewarding official misconduct in the second degree.
A person is guilty of rewarding official misconduct in the second degree when he knowingly confers, or offers or agrees to confer, any benefit upon a public servant for having violated his duty as a public servant.
Rewarding official misconduct in the second degree is a class E felony.
A person commits second-degree rewarding of official misconduct by knowingly giving, offering, or agreeing to give any benefit to a public servant for having violated the servant’s public duty. ★ It is a class E felony.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.