Providing a juror with a gratuity · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 215.22 Providing a juror with a gratuity.
A person is guilty of providing a juror with a gratuity when he or she, having been a party in a concluded civil or criminal action or proceeding or having been a person with regard to whom a grand jury has taken action pursuant to any subdivision of section 190.60 of the criminal procedure law (or acting on behalf of such a party or such a person), directly or indirectly confers, offers to confer or agrees to confer upon a person whom he or she knows has served as a juror in such action or proceeding or on such grand jury any benefit with intent to reward such person for such service.
Providing a juror with a gratuity is a class A misdemeanor.
A person who was a party to a concluded civil or criminal action or proceeding, or a person about whom a grand jury took action under section 190.60 of the Criminal Procedure Law (or someone acting for either), commits this offense by directly or indirectly giving, offering, or agreeing to give any benefit to a person known to have served as a juror in that action or on that grand jury, intending to reward that service. ★ It is a class A misdemeanor.
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.