In the cases referred to in this article, the loss of civic rights or prohibition from holding any public office
for twenty years at most shall also be handed down.
ARTICLE 80: In case the purpose of this agreement was a conspiracy breaching internal State security, those
guilty shall be punished with life imprisonment or death.
ARTICLE 81: Civil servants who, in a bid to oppose established laws or government action, decide, through
deliberation, to resign individually or collectively with the purpose of preventing or suspending either the
administration of justice, or the performance of any public service whatsoever, shall be guilty of malfeasance in
public office and punished with imprisonment of at least five years and ten years at most.
ARTICLE 82: The preceding provisions shall not in any way affect the right to strike and the freedom to assemble
in cooperation and trade union organisations of their choice to defend their professional interests.
CHAPTER VIII: INTERFERENCE FROM
ADMINISTRATIVE AND JUDICIAL OFFICIALS
ARTICLE 83: Judges, public prosecutors or attorney generals or their deputies, judicial police officers who,
irregularly stop or suspend the enforcement of one or more laws, or prohibit the enforcement of regular orders
from the administration, shall be punished with a fine of 25,000 francs at least and 200,000 francs at most.
The same sentence shall apply to ministers, mayors and other administrators who, either irregularly
stop or suspend the enforcement of one or more laws, or illegally interfere in the hearing of private rights and
interests in the court's competence.
CHAPTER IX: OPPOSITION TO LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY
ARTICLE 84: The following persons shall be punished with a fine of between 20, 000 and 120, 000 francs
inclusive, may be imprisoned for a period of between eleven days to three months:
1° those who will oppose through any acts, speech, gestures, manoeuvres whatsoever the exercise of the
legitimate authority by an agent vested with public authority or any citizen tasked with a public service and thereby
undermines or attempts to undermine public order or impedes or attempts to impede the proper functioning of
administrative or judiciary services, as well as any incitement to this opposition ;
2° those who, without any legitimate excuse, do not respond to regular summons from administrative or
judicial authorities;
3° those who, through deliberate abstention, undermine or attempt to undermine public order or impede or
attempt to impede the smooth functioning of administrative or judicial services;
Under this article, deliberate abstention must show that its perpetrator wanted to manifest blatant
indiscipline.
When the offence defined herein above is committed by several persons acting together, the penalties
may be doubled.
ARTICLE 85: In case the offender commits the same crime again, imprisonment shall compulsorily be handed
down and judges may also order a residency prohibition for maxim duration of five years.
The offender shall be found to have committed the offence again when an earlier ruling has been handed
down against him/him in the previous twelve months for an identical offence.
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