Receiving reward for official misconduct in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 200.27 Receiving reward for official misconduct in the first degree.
A public servant is guilty of receiving reward for official misconduct in the first degree when he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any benefit from another person 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.
Receiving reward for official misconduct in the first degree is a class C felony.
A public servant commits first-degree receipt of a reward for official misconduct by asking for, accepting, or agreeing to accept a benefit 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.