2° hinders the collection of material evidence;
3° fabricates or uses false material evidence or misleads a witness;
4° obtains from any person a promise not to report a felony or misdemeanor or not to testify;
however, in the case of a misdemeanor, it is not punishable to obtain such an undertaking from
the victim or his legal representative without the use of offers, promises, gifts or presents.
Article 330: Any person who exercises public authority or entrusted with a public service
mission or any person invested with a public elective mandate, which publicly makes false
statements or violates his oath, shall be punished by imprisonment of one to five years and a fine
of 100,000 to 1,000,000 francs.
Section 5: Usurpation or illegal use of title and office
Article 331: Anyone who, without being entitled to do so, interferes in public, administrative,
judicial or military functions, or performs the acts of one of these functions, shall be punished by
imprisonment for two to five years and a fine of 300,000 to 3,000,000 francs.
Article 332: Any person who publicly and without being entitled to do so, wears a costume,
uniform, badge or decoration that is also subject to regulation, shall be punished by
imprisonment of six months to two years and a fine of 150,000 to 1,500,000 francs.
Article 333: Any person who, without fulfilling the conditions required by law, makes use of a
title attached to a legally regulated profession, an official diploma or a qualification whose
conditions of attribution have been laid down by the public authorities, shall be liable to the
penalties provided for in the preceding article.
Article 334: Any persons who, while carrying on an activity as a business agent or legal advisor,
passes to be a magistrate, lawyer or public or ministerial official that they previously were or that
they still are in an honorary capacity on any prospectus, advertisement, flier, signboard,
letterhead, mandate and in general on any document or writing whatsoever used in the context of
their activity, shall be punished by a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs.
Section 6: Common provisions
Article 335: In all the cases provided for in this chapter, the judge may deprive the convicted
person of the rights listed in article 68 and impose on him the ban on appearing in certain places
provided for in article 80.
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