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      Sec. 29-9. Acceptance or offering of gifts or rewards by or to state or local police. (a) Any state police officer appointed as provided in section 29-4, any police officer of any city, town or borough and any person having the power of arrest who, directly or indirectly, receives a reward, gift or gratuity for the purpose of influencing his behavior in office, or any person who gives, offers or promises to a police officer or any person having the power of arrest any reward, gift or gratuity with the intent to influence his behavior in office, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both, and the police officer shall be dishonorably discharged from the Division of State Police or from the police department.

      (b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to rewards, gifts or gratuities which are approved by the Commissioner of Public Safety, or the police chief or board of police commissioners, as the case may be, and are given to the police officer on account of his official services.

      (1949 Rev., S. 3648; 1967, P.A. 409, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 486, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 05-288, S. 127.)

      History: 1967 act extended applicability of provisions to include police officers of cities, towns or boroughs and to all persons having power to make arrests and to persons who offer, give or promise rewards, gifts or gratuities with intent to influence an officer's behavior, moved commissioner's power to approve rewards, gifts or gratuities to new Subsec. (b) and extended that power to police chiefs and boards of police commissioners; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 made state police department a division within the department of public safety and replaced commissioner of state police with commissioner of public safety, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 05-288 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective July 13, 2005.

      Cited. 172 C. 458. Offense of offering a gratuity requires element of proof, specific intent, which is not needed to prove greater offense of bribery. Id. This section not a lesser included offense to Sec. 53a-147, and acceptance of guilty plea to this section was a nullity. Id., 608. Offense under this section is not a lesser included offense within Sec. 53a-148. 201 C. 379. Cited. 208 C. 411. Cited. 229 C. 479.

      Statute is not a lesser included offense of Sec. 53a-148. 5 CA 125.