SECTION III: USING FRADULENT STAMPS AND SYMBOLS ARTICLE 99:Whosoever, after unduly getting the real seals, stamps or trademarks of the State, councils or a state official, deliberately uses them for a purpose that undermines the rights and interests of the State, councils or a state official, shall be punished with imprisonment of between five to twenty years, and optionally residency prohibition of between one to twenty years. ARTICLE 100: Whosoever deliberately uses a postal stamp previously use to pay for the postal charge for a letter shall be punished with imprisonment of between fifteen days to three months and a fine of between 20, 000 to 100, 000 francs, or only one of these two penalties. In case the offender commits the same crime again, the imprisonment shall be between one to six months and must compulsorily be ordered. The fine shall be doubled. ARTICLE 101: Whosoever deliberately uses or attempts to sell fiscal stamps previously used shall be punished with the penalties provided for in article 99. SECTION IV: DOCUMENT FORGERY ARTICLE 102: Forgery shall refer to any alteration of the truth that could harm another person and is committed in writing, with criminal intent: - either by misrepresenting the substance or circumstance of an act; - either by including therein agreements other than those drawn up or dictated by the parties; either by noting as true false facts or as confessed facts that never were; - either by manufacturing all or part of a document; - either by counterfeiting or altering writings or signatures; - either using a forged signature ; - either by substituting people - or by adding or altering clauses, declarations or facts that a deed was supposed to have or attest to. ARTICLE 103: Any civil servant, as meant in this code, who commits forgery in the fulfilment of his/her duties, shall be punished with imprisonment of between five to twenty years, and optionally residency prohibition of between five to twenty years. Forgery committed by any other person shall be punished with imprisonment of between five to ten years, and optionally residency prohibition of between five to ten years. When the certain or possible prejudice can be evaluated in terms of money and is lower than 50, 000 francs, the penalty, irrespective of the perpetrator, shall be imprisonment of between two to five years. The residency prohibition may be ordered for a period of between two to five years. ARTICLE 104: Whoever deliberately uses forged deeds shall be punished with the penalty faced by the perpetrator of the forgery. ARTICLE 105: Whoever takes on a fictitious name in a passport, employment booklet or any other document issued by a Malian administrative authority or took part as a witness in having the said documents issued under the fictitious name shall be punished with imprisonment of between eleven days to two years. The same penalty shall apply to any individual who uses the documents referred to herein above under a name other than his/her own. 22