Opinion ID: 1676570
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Heading: constitutional rights of freedom of association and freedom of petition

Text: The provisions of KRS 6.811(9) and KRS 11A.236(1) which determine it to be a Class D felony for a person to engage any person to lobby in exchange for compensation that is contingent in any way upon the passage, modification, or the defeat of any legislation; or, for any person to accept any engagement to lobby in exchange for compensation that is contingent in any way upon the passage, modification, or defeat of any legislation are upheld as constitutional. Such acts as enumerated above are against public policy and are void. See Wood v. McCann, 36 Ky. (Dana VI) 366 (1838); Hazelton v. Sheckels, 202 U.S. 71, 26 S.Ct. 567, 50 L.Ed. 939 (1906). These statutes are neither overly broad nor are they violative of the appellant's freedom of association and right to petition under the Kentucky Constitution or the United States Constitution.