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urn: urn:us-la:rs:42:1118
citation: "R.S. 42:1118"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 42 › Chapter 15 › Part II"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1979, number: 443, section: 1, effective_date: 1980-04-01, role: enactment }
---

# Influencing action by legislature or governing authority

No public servant shall solicit or receive any thing of economic value, directly or indirectly, for, or to be used by him or a member of his immediate family principally to aid in, (1) the accomplishment of the passage or defeat of any matter affecting his agency by the legislature, if his agency is a state agency, or by the governing authority, if his agency is an agency of a political subdivision, or (2) the influencing, directly or indirectly, of the passage or defeat of any matter affecting his agency by the legislature, if his agency is a state agency, or by the governing authority, if his agency is an agency of a political subdivision.