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6.080 Disobedient witnesses -- Attempt to corrupt legislator -- Penalty.

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6.080 Disobedient witnesses -- Attempt to corrupt legislator -- Penalty. Any person who, after being lawfully summoned by the General Assembly, either house <br>or a committee of either, refuses to attend as a witness, or bring any paper proper to be <br>used as evidence or who, being present, refuses to testify concerning any matter which <br>may be a proper subject of inquiry, and any person who offers or gives a bribe to a <br>member of the General Assembly, or attempts, by other corrupt means, to influence a <br>member to cast or withhold his vote, shall, on conviction as provided by KRS 6.090 to <br>6.131, be fined not more than one thousand dollars (&#36;1,000) or imprisoned in the Franklin <br>County jail any time during the then current session of the General Assembly, or both. Effective: October 1, 1942 <br>History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1993.