Section 4210 - Private services, gifts and payments; contracts prohibited(a) No sheriff, deputy sheriff, detective or other county police officer whatsoever shall perform, directly or indirectly, any official services or official duties for any person, association or corporation, or receive, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gifts or gratuities from any person, association or corporation, during the period of his official services. Nothing herein contained shall prohibit such officers from serving writs and other legal process as authorized by law. Any compensation payable to any such officer for official duties and services shall be paid only out of the public funds, to the amount and in the manner prescribed by law. Gifts, donations and gratuities of any nature whatsoever, made by any person, association or corporation to the county or to any official or agent thereof, shall not constitute public funds within the meaning of this section.(b) No county, or any official or agent thereof, shall accept as a gratuity, gift or donation any arms, ammunition, military supplies, tear gas or equipment, or supplies or articles of a similar character from, nor shall any such gratuity, gift or donation be made by, any person, association or corporation.(c) Any contract or agreement whatsoever made in violation of the provisions of this section shall be utterly void and of no effect in law or in equity and is hereby declared to be contrary to public policy.1953, July 28, P.L. 723, art. XII, § 1210.