16-15-15. Acceptance of gift from party to action as misdemeanor--Inheritance excepted.Every judicial officer, juror, referee, arbitrator, or umpire, who accepts any gift from any person, knowing him to be a party in interest, or the attorney or counsel of any party in interest to any action or proceeding then pending or about to be brought before him, is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. The word 'gift' as used herein shall not be taken to include property received by inheritance, by will, or by gift in view of death. Source: PenC 1877, §§130, 131; CL 1887, §§6330, 6331; RPenC 1903, §§136, 137; RC 1919, §§3718, 3719; SDC 1939, §13.1204; SL 1979, ch 150, §13.
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