Article 356: Any person who, by knowingly communicating a contagious disease to any animal,
unintentionally causes or contributes to the spread of an epizootic disease in one of the species
referred to in the preceding article, shall be punished by a prison sentence of three months to one
year and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs.
Section 4: Offenses against public morals
Article 357: shall be punished by an imprisonment from one month to two years and a fine from
50.000 to 500.000 francs whoever:
1° manufactures, holds, imports, exports, transports with a view to trading, distributing, renting,
displaying or exhibiting any printed material, writings, drawings, posters, engravings, paintings,
photographs, films or snapshots, phonographic materials or reproductions, emblems and, in
general, any objects or images contrary to public morality ;
2° sells, rents, even free of charge and even not publicly, in any form whatsoever, displays,
exhibits or projects the printed documents or items listed in the preceding paragraph;
3° makes under the conditions of article 184, songs, shootings and speeches contrary to good
morals;
4° publicly draws attention to an occasion of debauchery or publishes an announcement or
correspondence of this kind whatever the terms;
5° disseminates, even non-publicly, distributes, even free of charge, without the consent of the
sexual partner, even occasionally, and by any means, in particular by means of information and
communication technologies, screams, photographs, films or snapshots collected during their
sexual relations.
Shall be punished with the same penalties any other person who commits the acts envisaged in
the 5° of the preceding paragraph.
The penalties shall be doubled if the offence is committed against a minor.
The judge may prohibit the convicted person from exercising directly or through an
intermediary, in law or in fact, management functions in any printing, publishing, group or
distribution company of newspapers and periodicals and pronounce the deprivation of rights
referred to in article 68.
The penalties provided for in this article may be pronounced even if the various acts that
constitute the elements of the offenses were carried out in different countries.
When the offenses provided for in this article are committed through the press, the provisions of
the second paragraph of article 183 shall apply.
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