Enacted parts

ARTICLE 433-15
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
Wearing a costume or uniform in public, using a vehicle, or using an insignia or a document which bear a
resemblance to costumes, uniforms, vehicles, insignia badges or distinctive documents reserved for the national police
or army, and thus is liable to mislead the public, is punished by six months' imprisonment and a fine of €7,500.
ARTICLE 433-16
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
The offences defined by articles 433-14 and 433-15 are punished by three years' imprisonment and a fine of
€45,000 where their object is to prepare or facilitate the commission of a felony or a misdemeanour.
SECTION IX
OF USURPATION OF TITLES
Article 433-17
ARTICLE 433-17
The unlawful use of a title attached to a profession regulated by public authority or of an official certificate or
capacity of which the conditions of attribution are fixed by public authority is punished by one year's imprisonment and a
fine of €15,000.
SECTION X
THE UNLAWFUL USE OF A POSITION
Article 433-18
ARTICLE 433-18
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
A penalty of sentence of six months' imprisonment and a fine of €7,500 is incurred by the founder or the lawful or de
facto manager of a profit-making enterprise, who inscribes or causes to appear in an advertisement made for the
enterprise that he manages or intends to create:
1° the name, with indication of his capacity, of a member or a former member of the Government, the Parliament,
the European Parliament, the deliberating body of a local assembly, the Constitutional Council, the Conseil d'Etat, the
Social and Economic Council, the High Council for the Judiciary, the Cour de cassation, the Court of Public Auditors, the
Institute of France, the executive board of the Bank of France or of a collegiate body having the duty to supervise or to
give advice;
2° the name, with indication of his capacity, of a judge or prosecutor or former judge or prosecutor, of a civil servant
or former civil servant, or of a legal professional officer or a public officer;
3° the name of a person with the indication of any decoration, regulated by the public authority, awarded to him.
A banker or salesman who uses the advertising referred to under the previous paragraph is subject to the same
penalties.
SECTION XI
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PENAL CODE
OFFENCES AGAINST THE CIVIL STATUS OF PERSONS
Articles 433-19 to
433-21-1