                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROHIBITION ON SOLICITATION OR ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS; GIFTS BY BIDDERS, OFFERORS,
CONTRACTOR OR SUBCONTRACTORS PROHIBITED (§ 2.2-4371)

A. No public employee having official responsibility for a procurement
transaction shall solicit, demand, accept, or agree to accept from a bidder,
offeror, contractor or subcontractor any payment, loan, subscription, advance,
deposit of money, services or anything of more than nominal or minimal value,
present or promised, unless consideration of substantially equal or greater
value is exchanged. The public body may recover the value of anything conveyed
in violation of this subsection.

B. No bidder, offeror, contractor or subcontractor shall confer upon any public
employee having official responsibility for a procurement transaction any
payment, loan, subscription, advance, deposit of money, services or anything of
more than nominal value, present or promised, unless consideration of
substantially equal or greater value is exchanged.

HISTORY: 1982, c. 647, §§ 11-75, 11-77; 2001, c. 844.