Enacted parts

ARTICLE 433-19
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
A penalty of six months' imprisonment and a fine of €7,500 is incurred by:
1° using a name or part of a name other than that assigned by civil status;
2° changing, altering or modifying a name or part of a name assigned by civil status;
in an authentic or public document or in an administrative document drafted for public authority, other than where
regulations in force permit the drafting of such documents under an assumed civil status.
ARTICLE 433-20
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
A person bound by marriage who contracts another marriage before the dissolution of the existing marriage is
punished by one year's imprisonment and a fine of €45,000.
The same penalties apply to any public officer who solemnises the marriage having knowledge of the existence of
the previous marriage.
ARTICLE 433-21
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
Any minister of religion who habitually conducts religious ceremonies of marriages without being presented
beforehand with the marriage certificate received by officials responsible for civil status is punished by six months'
imprisonment and a fine of €7,500.
ARTICLE 433-21-1
(Act no. 92-1336 of 16 December 1992 Article 366 and 373 Official Journal of 23 December 1992 in force 1 March 1994)
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
Any person conducting a funeral in a manner contrary to the wishes of the deceased or to a judicial decision, this
being a wish or decision of which he is aware, is punished by six months' imprisonment and a fine of €7,500.
SECTION XII
ADDITIONAL PENALTIES APPLICABLE TO NATURAL PERSONS AND
LIABILITY OF LEGAL PERSONS
Articles 433-22 to
433-25