Every player, participant, coach, umpire, referee or other person having or exercising authority in connection with the conducting of any amateur or professional athletic contest, who corruptly accepts or requests a gift or gratuity or a promise of any such gift or gratuity, or any other thing of value, or the performance of an act beneficial to any such person in consideration of such person performing any act or making any judgment or decision, or in consideration of such person playing or making decisions or judgments or conducting such athletic contest, in a manner intended or calculated to affect or change the result of such athletic contest, or in consideration of such person failing to participate or engage in any such contest, shall be deemed guilty of a Class D3 felony offense and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20P of this title, or by a fine of not to exceed Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment. Added by Laws 1947, p. 232, § 2, emerg. eff. April 16, 1947. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 185, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 101, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 664, eff. Jan. 1, 2026.
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