21-4401. Racketeering.
21-4401
21-4401. Racketeering.(a) Racketeering is demanding, soliciting or receiving anything ofvaluefrom the owner, proprietor, or other person having a financial interest ina business, by means of either a threat, express or implied, or a promise,express or implied, that the person so demanding, soliciting or receivingsuch thing of value will:
(1) Cause the competition of the person from whom the payment isdemanded, solicited or received to be diminished or eliminated;
(2) Cause the price of goods or services purchased or sold inthebusiness to be increased, decreased or maintained at a stated level; or
(3) Protect the property used in the business or the person orfamily ofthe owner, proprietor or other interested person from injury by violence orother unlawful means.
(b) Racketeering is a severity level 7,nonperson felony.
History: L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-4401;L. 1992, ch. 239, § 223;L. 1993, ch. 291, § 171; July 1.