The sequestered property is administered and liquidated in accordance with the legal provisions relating to sequestration in the public interest. They are restituted in the event of accusations dismissal, acquittal or discharge, and liquidated in the event of conviction. They may only be returned or liquidated once the decision to dismiss accusations, acquit, discharge or convict the person has become final. The funds resulting from the liquidation are used to pay the costs, fines, restitutions and damages payable by the convicted person and the remaining assets, if any, shall be returned to the convicted person. They shall be deposited with the Treasury if restitution cannot be made immediately. Decisions ordering the sequestration or pronouncing the dismissal of accusations, acquittal, discharge or conviction are notified by the Public Prosecutor's Office to the administration in charge of the Public Domains, as soon as they are final. Section 4: Deprivation of certain rights Article 68: The judge may deprive the convicted person of the right: 1°) to be appointed to jury as an assessor, as an expert, as well as to work with the Administration and perform any other public functions; 2°) to obtain an authorization to carry a weapon; 3°) to exercise guardianship or trusteeship functions, to wear distinctions and medals, to open a school and generally to exercise all functions related to teaching, education or the care of children. The deprivation may be of all or part of such rights. No provision of this section may be interpreted as modifying loss, deprivations or prohibitions of rights resulting from special provisions. Article 69: Deprivation of the rights listed in article 68 is a mandatory additional penalty to any conviction for an act qualified as a felony and optional to any conviction for an act qualified as a misdemeanor. In case of a misdemeanor, the judge may only pronounce it in in accordance with a special provision of the law. Article 70: The deprivation of rights applies from the day on which the decision from which it results has become final or from the execution of the formalities provided for by procedural laws in case of conviction in absentia. Article 71: The deprivation of rights applies until the expiration of a period of ten years for acts qualified as felonies, and five years for acts qualified as misdemeanors.

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