TITLE VI. Crimes against the Legislative Power. § 81. Preventing the meeting or organization of either branch of the legislature. § 82. Disturbing the legislature while in session. § 83. Altering draft of bill or resolution. $84. Altering enrolled copy of bill or resolution. § 85. § 86. Giving or offering bribes to members of the legislature. § 87. § 88. Witnesses refusing to attend, testify, or produce papers before the legislature or committees thereof. Members of the legislature, in addition to other penalties, to forfeit office and be disqualified, etc. § 89. Lobbying, and penalty for. § 81. Preventing the meeting or organization of either branch of the legislature. Every person who willfully, and by force or fraud, prevents the legislature of this state, or either of the houses composing it, or any of the members thereof, from meeting or organizing, is guilty of felony. California Jurisprudence: See article Legislature. Legislation § 81. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 113, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 59. § 82. Disturbing the legislature while in session. Every person who willfully disturbs the legislature of this state, or either of the houses composing it, while in session, or who commits any disorderly conduct in the immediate view and presence of either house, tending to interrupt its proceedings or impair the respect due to its authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor. California Jurisprudence: See article Legislature. Legislation § 82. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 114, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 60. § 83. Altering draft of bill or resolution. Every person who fraudulently alters the draft of any bill or resolution which has been presented to either of the houses composing the legislature, to be passed or adopted, with intent to procure it to be passed or adopted by either house, or certified by the presiding officer of either house, in language different from that intended by such house, is guilty of felony. California Jurisprudence: See article Legislature. Legislation § 83. Enacted February 14, 1872; identical with Field's Draft, § 118, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 64. § 84. Altering enrolled copy of bill or resolution. Every person who fraudulently alters the enrolled copy of any bill or resolution which has been passed or adopted by the legis lature of this state, with intent to procure it to be approved by the governor, or certified by the secretary of state, or printed or published by the printer of the statutes, in language different from that in which it was passed or adopted by the legislature, is guilty of felony. California Jurisprudence: See article Legislature. Legislation § 84. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 119, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 65. § 85. Giving or offering bribes to members of the legislature. Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe to any member of the legislature, or to another person for him, or attempts by menace, deceit, suppression of truth, or any corrupt means, to influence a member in giving or withholding his vote, or in not attending the house or any committee of which he is a member, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than one nor more than ten years. Bribery: See ante, §§ 67, 68. California Jurisprudence: See article Bribery, vol. 4, p. 494. Legislation § 85. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 120, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 66; Crimes and Punishment Act, Stats. 1850, p. 239, §§ 84, 85, 86; Stats. 1863, p. 645, §§ 1, 2. § 86. Receiving bribes by members of the legislature. Every member of either of the houses composing the legislature of this state who asks, receives, or agrees to receive any bribe upon any understanding that his official vote, opinion, judgment, or action shall be influenced thereby, or shall be given in any particular 'manner, or upon any particular side of any question or matter upon which he may be required to act in his official capacity, or gives, or offers, or promises to give any official vote in consideration that another member of the legislature shall give any such vote, either upon the same or another question is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than one nor more than fourteen years, and upon conviction thereof shall, in addition to said punishment, forfeit his office, be disfranchised, and forever disqualified from holding any office or public trust. [Amendment approved 1880; Code Amdts. 1880, p. 7.] This section as re-enacted April 6, 1880, is a revised and independent act which is not subject to § 26 of article IV of the constitution. The original section was not repealed by § 35 of article IV of the constitution, and the power of the legislature to punish legislative bribery by the above section as re-enacted was not withdrawn by that section and the legislature properly included the additional punishment of disfranchisement established by the constitution. Bunkers, In re, 1 Cal. App. 61, 81 Pac. 748. California Jurisprudence: See article Bribery, vol. 4, p. 493. Legislation § 86. 1. Enacted February 14, 1872 (based on Field's Draft, § 121, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 67; Crimes and Punishment Act, Stats. 1850, p. 239, §§ 84, 85, 86; Stats. 1863, p. 645, §§ 1, 2), and then ended with the words "nor more than fourteen years." 2. Amended by Code Amdts. 1880, p. 7. § 87. Witnesses refusing to attend, testify, or produce papers before the legislature or committees thereof. Every person who, being summoned to attend as witness before either house of the legislature or any committee thereof, refuses or neglects, without lawful excuse, to attend pursuant to such summons; and every person who, being present before either house of the legislature or any committee thereof, willfully refuses to be sworn or to answer any material and proper question, or to produce, upon reasonable notice, any material and proper books, papers, or documents in his possession or under his control, is guilty of a misde meanor. California Jurisprudence: See article Legislature. Legislation § 87. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, §§ 122, 123, N. Y. Pen. Code, §§ 68, 69; Stats. 1857, p. 97, § 1. § 88. Members of the legislature, in addition to other penalties, to forfeit office and be disqualified, etc. Every member of the legislature convicted of any crime defined in this chapter, in addition to the punishment prescribed, forfeits his office and is forever disqualified from holding any office in this state. California Jurisprudence: See article Legislature. Legislation § 88. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 124, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 70. $89. Lobbying, and penalty for. Every person who obtains, or seeks to obtain money or other thing of value from another person, upon a pretense, claim, or representation that he can or will improperly influence in any manner the action of any member of a legislative body in regard to any vote or legislative matter, is guilty of a felony. Upon the trial no person otherwise competent as a witness shall be excused from testifying as such concerning the offense charged, on the grounds that such testimony may criminate himself, or subject him to public infamy, but such testimony shall not afterwards be used against him in any judicial proceeding except for perjury in giving such testimony. [Amendment approved 1880; Code Amdts. 1880, p. 7.] California Jurisprudence: See article Bribery, vol. 4, p. 495. Legislation § 89. 1. Added by Code Amdts. 1873-74, p. 456, the first sentence then reading as at present, and thereafter the section proceeding, "If, upon the trial of an indictment found under the provisions of this section, the accused is examined as a witness in his own behalf, evidence may then be given that he has committed TITLE VII. Crimes against Public Justice. Chapter I. Bribery and Corruption. §§ 92-100. II. Rescues. §§ 101, 102. III. Escapes, and Aiding Therein. §§ 105-111. IV. Forging, Stealing, Mutilating and Falsifying Judicial V. Perjury and Subornation of Perjury. §§ 113-117. §§ 118-129. VII. Other Offenses against Public Justice. §§ 142-181. CHAPTER 1. Bribery and Corruption. 92. Giving bribes to judges, jurors, referees, etc. 93. Receiving bribes by judicial officers, jurors, etc. 94. Extortion. Misconduct of judicial officers. Stenographers. $95. Improper attempts to influence jurors, referees, etc. $96. Misconduct of jurors, referees, etc. 97. Justice or constable purchasing judgment. 98. Officers to forfeit and be disqualified from holding office. 99. Superintendent of state printing. Shall not have any interest in contract of any kind connected with his office. Penalty. $100. Superintendent of state printing, penalty for collusion. $92. Giving bribes to judges, jurors, referees, etc. Every person who gives or offers to give a bribe to any judicial officer, juror, referee, arbitrator, or umpire, or to any person who may be authorized by law to hear or determine any question or controversy, with intent to influence his vote, opinion, or decision upon any matter or question which is or may be brought before him for decision, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than one nor more than ten years. Bribery of executive officers: See ante, § 67. Giving bribes to executive officers: See ante, §§ 67, 68. California Jurisprudence: See article Bribery, vol. 4, p. 496. Legislation § 92. Enacted February 14, 1872; based on Field's Draft, § 125, N. Y. Pen. Code, § 71; Crimes and Punishment Act, Stats. 1850, pp. 239, 240, 242, §§ 84, 85, 86, 106, as amended by Stats. 1856, p. 220, § 10; Stats. 1863, p. 645, §§ 1, 2. $93. Receiving bribes by judicial officers, jurors, etc. Every judicial officer, juror, referee, arbitrator, or umpire, and every person authorized by law to hear or determine any question or controversy, who asks, receives, or agrees to receive, any bribe, upon any agreement or understanding that his vote, opinion, or decision upon any matters or ques |