The penalty shall be life imprisonment if the destruction or degradation causes death or permanent illness or disability, even if the property belongs to the offender. Article 487: Anyone who sets fire to any of the objects listed in the preceding articles by deliberately setting fire to any object belonging either to himself or to another person and placed in such a way as to set fire to the said object shall be punished by the penalties provided for in article 486. Article 488: Any person who, under the conditions laid down in the preceding article, causes a fire in a farmed or not farmed area situated less than five hundred meters from an inhabited house, a road or a public building, shall be punished by imprisonment of two to twelve months and a fine of 100,000 to 500,000 francs. Article 489: Any person who, without authorization, manufactures, imports, buys, sells, keeps or transports either an incendiary or explosive substance or a product suitable for its manufacture shall be punished by one to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 300,000 to 3,000,000 francs. Article 490: Any person who, causing damage to others, deliberately burns or destroys registers, securities, bills, commercial or bank instruments, containing or effecting obligations, disposals or discharges, shall be punished by imprisonment of one to five years and a fine of 300,000 to 3,000,000 francs. Article 491: Any person who destroys standing crops or naturally occurring or man-made seedlings or trees shall be punished by imprisonment of six months to three years and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs. Article 492: Any person who allows livestock to pass over the land of another person bearing crops, plantations or harvests, with the circumstance that the said passage is likely to damage these crops, plantations or harvests, shall be punished by imprisonment for one to three years and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs. The penalty shall be imprisonment for six months to three years and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs where the passage of animals has caused damage to crops, plantations or harvests. Article 493: Any person who voluntarily destroys or damages by fire or by any other means, in whole or in part, a vehicle of any kind belonging to another shall be punishable by imprisonment for one to three years and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs. The attempt shall be punishable. Article 494: Shall be punishable by six months to two years imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs or one of these two penalties only, any person who voluntarily: 1° destroys or damages agricultural implements, livestock pens or constructions made of light materials;