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(1) No Tribal public servant in any department or agency exercising a regulatory function, conducting inspections or investigations, carrying on a civil or criminal litigation on behalf of Tribal government, or having custody of prisoners shall solicit, accept or agree to accept any pecuniary benefit from a person known to be subject to such regulation, inspection, investigation, or custody or against whom such litigation is known to be pending or contemplated.

(2) No Tribal public servant having any discretionary function to perform in connection with contracts, purchases, payments, claims, or other pecuniary transactions of the government shall solicit, accept, or agree to accept any pecuniary benefit from any person known to be interested in or likely to become interested in any such contract, purchase, payment, claim, or transaction.

(3) No Tribal public servant having judicial or administrative authority and no Tribal public servant employed by a Tribal Court having such authority or participating in the enforcement of its decision shall solicit, accept, or agree to accept any pecuniary benefit from a person known to be interested in or likely to become interested in any matter before such Tribal public servant or tribunal with which he or she is associated.

(4) This section shall not apply to:

(a) Fees or payments prescribed by law to be received by a Tribal public servant or any other benefit for which the recipient gives legitimate consideration or to which he or she is otherwise entitled; or

(b) Trivial benefits incidental to personal, professional, or business contacts and involving no substantial risk of undermining official impartiality.

(5) No person shall knowingly confer or offer or agree to confer any benefit prohibited by subsections (1) through (3) of this section.

(6) An offense committed under this section is a Class C offense.