Prohibición de aceptar pagos no autorizados por funcionarios públicos

Explicación Simple

Si trabajas para el gobierno, no puedes aceptar dinero extra por hacer tu trabajo. Solo puedes aceptar lo que la ley dice que puedes recibir.

Es como si fueras un jugador de fútbol: solo puedes recibir tu sueldo del equipo y no puedes pedir dinero a los aficionados por hacer tu trabajo en el campo.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Ana es una empleada del gobierno en California. Un día, un candidato le ofrece $100 para ayudarle a conseguir votos. Si Ana acepta ese dinero, estaría rompiendo la ley, porque no puede recibir pagos no autorizados por su trabajo.

Penalidades

Puede ser acusado de un delito menor si acepta pagos no autorizados.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

Penal Code - PEN PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25 - 680.4] ( Part 1 enacted 1872. ) TITLE 5. OF CRIMES BY AND AGAINST THE EXECUTIVE POWER OF THE STATE [67 - 77] ( Title 5 enacted 1872. ) 70. (a) Every executive or ministerial officer, employee, or appointee of the State of California, or any county or city therein, or any political subdivision thereof, who knowingly asks, receives, or agrees to receive any emolument, gratuity, or reward, or any promise thereof excepting such as may be authorized by law for doing an official act, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) This section does not prohibit deputy registrars of voters from receiving compensation when authorized by local ordinance from any candidate, political committee, or statewide political organization for securing the registration of voters. (c) (1) Nothing in this section precludes a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2, from engaging in, or being employed in, casual or part-time employment as a private security guard or patrolman for a public entity while off duty from his or her principal employment and outside his or her regular employment as a peace officer of a state or local agency, and exercising the powers of a peace officer concurrently with that employment, provided that the peace officer is in a police uniform and is subject to reasonable rules and regulations of the agency for which he or she is a peace officer. Notwithstanding the above provisions, any and all civil and criminal liability arising out of the secondary employment of any peace officer pursuant to this subdivision shall be borne by the officer’s secondary employer. (2) It is the intent of the Legislature by this subdivision to abrogate the holdings in People v. Corey, 21 Cal.3d 7