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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="16-202" title_number="16" title_name="Suspension and Debarment of Contractors" subtitle_number="2">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A person is debarred by operation of law from entering into a contract with a public body if the person has been convicted under the laws of the State for bribery, attempted bribery, or conspiracy to bribe, committed in furtherance of obtaining a contract with a public body.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person may be debarred from entering into a contract with a public body, if the person:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>has been convicted under the laws of the State for bribery, attempted bribery, or conspiracy to bribe, committed other than in furtherance of obtaining a contract with any public body;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>has been convicted under the laws of another state or of the United States of bribery, attempted bribery, or conspiracy to bribe; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>during the course of an official investigation or other proceeding has admitted, in writing or under oath, acts or omissions that would constitute bribery, attempted bribery, or conspiracy to bribe, under the laws of the State, another state or the United States.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
