2° or by fraudulently distorting the substance or circumstances of the document, in particular by
writing agreements other than those indicated by the parties, or by establishing as true false facts,
or as acknowledged facts which were not.
Article 308: Any other person who commits a forgery in a public or authentic document shall be
punished by imprisonment of one to five years and a fine of 100,000 to 1,000,000 francs:
1° either by forgery or counterfeiting the documents or signatures;
2° or by forging agreements, provisions, obligations or discharges or by inserting them in the
documents;
3° or by addition or alteration of clauses, declarations or facts which these documents were
intended to contain and confirm.
Article 309: Any person who knowingly makes use of the forgeries mentioned in the two
preceding articles shall be punished by imprisonment of one to five years and a fine of 200,000
to 2,000,000 francs.
Article 310: The attempt of the offenses provided for in the present section is punishable.
Section 2: Forgery in certain administrative documents
Article 311: Shall be punishable by imprisonment of six months to three years and a fine of
50,000 to 500,000 francs anyone who fraudulently reproduces or imitates, falsifies or alters
permits, certificates, booklets, cards, bulletins, receipts, passports, passes, travel documents,
registers or any other document, regardless of the medium, issued by public administrations or
required by regulations in order to establish a right, identity or status, to grant an authorization or
to reimburse expenses.
The same penalties shall apply to any person who knowingly makes use of documents thus
reproduced, imitated, falsified or altered.
Article 312: Any person who unduly obtains one of the documents provided for in the preceding
article, either by making false declarations, or under false name or capacity, or by providing false
information, certificates or attestations, shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of six
months to three years and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs.
The same penalties shall be applicable:
1° to the person who knowingly makes use of such a document;
2° to any person who knowingly makes use of any of the documents referred to in the preceding
article, where the substance has become incomplete or inaccurate.
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