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SECTION 215.22
Providing a juror with a gratuity
Penal (PEN) CHAPTER 40, PART 3, TITLE L, ARTICLE 215
§ 215.22 Providing a juror with a gratuity.

A person is guilty of providing a juror with a gratuity when he or
she, having been a party in a concluded civil or criminal action or
proceeding or having been a person with regard to whom a grand jury has
taken action pursuant to any subdivision of section 190.60 of the
criminal procedure law (or acting on behalf of such a party or such a
person), directly or indirectly confers, offers to confer or agrees to
confer upon a person whom he or she knows has served as a juror in such
action or proceeding or on such grand jury any benefit with intent to
reward such person for such service.

Providing a juror with a gratuity is a class A misdemeanor.