§ 6903. Violations and penalties.
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(a)Any person, who, with intent to avoid compliance with this chapter, wilfully fragments or subdivides any contract for the purchase of materiel, nonprofessional services, public works or professional services, shall be subject to the penalties listed in this section.
(b)Each contract entered into by an agency for professional services shall contain a prohibition against contingency fees as follows:
(1)The firm offering professional services swears that it has not employed or retained any company or person, working primarily for the firm offering professional services, to solicit or secure this agreement by improperly influencing the agency or any of it employees in any professional service procurement process;
(2)The firm offering the professional service has not paid or agreed to pay any person, company, corporation, individual or firm, other than a bona fide employee working primarily for the firm offering professional services, any fee, commission, percentage, gift or any other consideration contingent upon or resulting from the award or making of this agreement; and
(3)For the violation of this provision, the agency shall have the right to terminate the agreement without liability and, at its discretion, to deduct from the contract price, or otherwise recover the full amount of such fee, commission, percentage, gift or consideration.
(c)Any agency official who offers to solicit or secure, or solicits or secures, any agency or central contract and in connection therewith is paid any fee, commission, percentage, gift or any other consideration, shall be subject to the penalties listed in this section.
(d)Any individual or firm who offers, agrees or contracts to improperly influence any agency or its employees in the procurement of any agency or central contract and who is paid or is to be paid a fee, commission, percentage, gift or any other consideration contingent upon or resulting from the award or the making of an agency or central contract, shall be subject to the penalties listed in this section.
(e)Any individual or firm offering materiel and/or services which shall offer to pay to an agency official, representative or employee or is paid any fee, commission, percentage, gift or any other consideration contingent upon or resulting from the award or making of any agency or central contract shall be subject to the penalties listed in this section.
(f)Except for § 6960 of this title, for which the penalties and remedies enumerated in that section shall apply, any individual or firm which commits a violation of this chapter, as listed in this section, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $1,000 and not more than $2,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or both, and upon a second or subsequent conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $2,000 and not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or both. The Superior Court for the State shall have exclusive original jurisdiction over offenses listed in this section.
(g)The remedies and penalties provided for in this section are not exclusive and shall be in addition to any other procedures, rights or remedies which exist with respect to any other provisions of law including but not limited to state and/or federal criminal prosecutions or common law or statutory actions brought by private parties and/or the provisions and penalties defined in Chapter 58 of this title.