Text of the provision
Art. 185. Machinations in public auctions. -Any person who shall solicit any gift or promise as a consideration for refraining from taking part in any public auction, and any person who shall attempt to cause bidders to stay away from an auction by threats, gifts, promises, or any other artifice, with intent to cause the reduction of the price of the thing auctioned, shall suffer the penalty of prision correccional in its minimum period and a fine ranging from 10 to 50 per centum of the value of the thing auctioned.
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Act No. 3815, as amended. Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.
What this article means
It is a crime to solicit a gift or promise in exchange for staying out of a public auction, or to try to drive bidders away by threats, gifts, promises or any other artifice in order to push down the price of the thing auctioned. The penalty is prisión correccional in its minimum period and a fine ranging from 10 to 50 per centum of the value of the thing auctioned.
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On this text. This article is reproduced as the Revised Penal Code enacted it, verified word-for-word against two independent sources. Republic Act No. 10951 (2017) revised the penalty amounts in many other articles of this Code; where an amount appears below it is the figure this article itself carries.
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