§ § 17-110Misdemeanors concerning police commissioners or officers or members of any police force

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members of any police force. Any person who, being a police commissioner
or any officer or member of any police force in this state:

1. Uses or threatens or attempts to use his official power or
authority, in any manner, directly or indirectly, in aid of or against
any political party, organization, association or society, or to
control, affect, influence, reward or punish, the political adherence,
affiliation, action, expression or opinion of any citizen; or

2. Appoints, promotes, transfers, retires or punishes an officer or
member of a police force, or asks for or aids in the promotion,
transfer, retirement or punishment of an officer or member of a police
force because of the party adherence or affiliation of such officer or
member, or for or on the request, direct or indirect, of any political
party, organization, association or society, or of any officer, member
of a committee or representative official or otherwise of any political
party, organization, association or society; or

3. Solicits, collects or receives any money for, any political fund,
club, association, society or committee, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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