Rewarding official misconduct in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 200.22 Rewarding official misconduct in the first degree.
A person is guilty of rewarding official misconduct in the first 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 in the investigation, arrest, detention, prosecution, or incarceration of any person for the commission or alleged commission of a class A felony defined in article two hundred twenty of the penal law or the attempt to commit any such class A felony.
Rewarding official misconduct in the first degree is a class C felony.
A person commits first-degree rewarding of official misconduct by knowingly giving, offering, or agreeing to give a benefit to a public servant for having violated public duty in the investigation, arrest, detention, prosecution, or incarceration of someone for an alleged or committed class A felony under article 220, or an attempt. ★ It is a class C 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.