2019 Connecticut General Statutes 1-102 – Unlawful employment of state officers or persons paid by the state to influence legislative action
No person, committee, association, organization or corporation shall employ any salaried commissioner or deputy commissioner of this state, or any person receiving a salary or pay from the state for services rendered and performed at Hartford, or shall give to any such person any advantage, aid, emolument, entertainment, money or other valuable thing for appearing for, on behalf of or in opposition to, any measure, bill, resolution or petition pending before the General Assembly or any committee thereof, or for advancing, supporting, advocating, or seeking to secure the passage, defeat or amendment of any such measure, bill, resolution or petition pending in or before the General Assembly or any committee thereof; nor shall any such salaried commissioner, deputy commissioner or other person described in this section accept any such employment or perform any such service for another, or accept aid, emolument, entertainment, money, advantage or other valuable thing for or in consideration of any such service. Any person, committee, association, organization or corporation, or any such salaried commissioner, deputy commissioner or person receiving a salary or pay from the state for services rendered and performed at Hartford, who violates any of the provisions of this section, shall be fined not less than one hundred or more than one thousand dollars. All complaints for the violation of this section shall be made to the state’s attorney for the judicial district of New Britain, and said state’s attorney shall, upon proof of probable guilt being shown, cause the arrest of any such offender and present such offender or cause such offender to be presented for trial before the superior court for the judicial district of New Britain.