Any executive, legislative, judicial or ministerial officer, or member of the Legislature, who shall demand, receive or accept any gift, gratuity, money, testimonial or other valuable thing, or shall exact any promise to make such gift or to pay to him money, testimonial or other valuable thing, or to do any act beneficial to such officer or member of the Legislature, from any person, company or corporation, under an agreement or understanding that his vote, opinion, judgment or decision shall be given or withheld in any particular manner upon a particular side of any question, cause or proceeding, which is, or may be by law brought before him in his official capacity, or that in such capacity he shall make any particular nomination or appointment, or for any vote or influence he may give or withhold as such officer or member of the Legislature, or that such officer will fail to perform or improperly perform any of his official, public duties, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten years; and in addition thereto such officer or member of the Legislature shall forfeit the office then held by him and shall be forever disqualified from holding any office or position of honor, trust or profit in this state.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 61. Crimes and Their Punishment
Article 5. Crimes Against Public Justice
§61-5-1. Perjury and Subornation of Perjury Defined
§61-5-2. False Swearing Defined
§61-5-3. Penalties for Perjury, Subordination of Perjury, and False Swearing
§61-5-4. Bribery or Attempted Bribery; Penalty
§61-5-5. Demanding or Receiving Bribes; Penalty
§61-5-6. Receiving Bribe by Officer in Delay of Service of Process; Penalty
§61-5-9. Permitting Escape; Refusal of Custody of Prisoner; Penalties
§61-5-10. Persons in Custody of Institutions or Officers
§61-5-11. Escapes and Aiding in Escapes; Terms of Confinement in Addition to Previous Sentence
§61-5-12a. Escape From Custody of the Commissioner of Corrections
§61-5-12b. Escape From Custody of the Director of Juvenile Services
§61-5-13. Refusal of Officer to Make, or Delay in Making, Arrest; Penalty
§61-5-14. Refusal of Person to Aid Officer; Penalty
§61-5-15. Refusal of Person to Execute Order of Arrest by Justice; Penalty
§61-5-16. Refusal of Officer to Execute Act or Process of Legislature or Order of Governor; Penalty
§61-5-19. Compounding Offenses and Misprision; Penalties
§61-5-20. Exacting Excessive Fees; Penalty
§61-5-21. Issuing Fraudulent Fee Bills; Penalty
§61-5-22. Alteration, Concealment or Destruction of Public Record by Officer; Penalty
§61-5-23. Larceny, Concealment or Destruction of Public Record by Person Not Officer; Penalty
§61-5-24. Corrupt Summoning of Jurors to Find Biased Verdict; Penalty
§61-5-25. Procuring the Summoning of Biased Juror by Party Other Than Officer; Penalty
§61-5-25a. Discrimination Against Employee Summoned for Jury Duty; Penalty
§61-5-26. Contempt of Court; What Constitutes Contempt; Jury Trial; Presence of Defendant
§61-5-28. Failure to Perform Official Duties; Penalty
§61-5-29. Failure to Meet an Obligation to Pay Support to a Minor; Penalties