24 Pa. Stat. § 3-325

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-111
Section 3-325 - Offering bribes; penalty

Every person who shall, individually or by or through any agent or representative, directly or indirectly, promise, pay, or give to any school director in this Commonwealth, any sum of money or other valuable thing, or make any promise of any office or appointment of any kind, in order to influence or secure the voting for, or the appointment of, himself, or any other person, as a teacher, executive director or assistant executive director of an intermediate unit, district superintendent, assistant superintendent, tax collector, attendance officer, or to any other position connected with the public schools of this Commonwealth, or for the purpose of having his salary increased while holding any appointment under the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than five dollars ($5) or more than five hundred dollars ($500), or be sentenced to the county jail for not less than thirty (30) days or more than one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. Any person so convicted shall thereafter be ineligible to be engaged as a teacher or to hold any office or appointment provided for by the provisions of this act.

24 P.S. § 3-325

1949, March 10, P.L. 30, art. III, § 325. Amended 1970, Jan. 14, P.L. (1969) 468, § 5, eff. 7/1/1970; 1970, May 4, P.L. 326, No. 103, § 1.