Enacted parts

ARTICLE 131-10
(Act no. 1998-468 of 17 June 1998 Article 5 Official Journal of 18 June 1998) 
Where the law so provides, a felony or a misdemeanour may be punished by one or more additional penalties
sanctioning natural persons which entail prohibition, forfeiture, incapacity or withdrawal of a right, an obligation to seek
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PENAL CODE
treatment or a duty to act, the impounding or confiscation of a thing, the compulsory closure of an establishment, the
posting a public notice of the decision or the dissemination the decision in the press, or its communication to the public
by any means of electronic communication.
ARTICLE 131-11
Where a misdemeanour is punishable by one or more of the additional penalties enumerated under article 131-10,
the court may decide to impose as a main sentence one or more of the additional penalties.
The court may fix the maximum period of imprisonment or monetary penalty which the penalty enforcement judge
may order to be wholly or completely enforced, under the conditions set out under article 712-6 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, if the convicted person fails to respect any obligations or prohibitions arising from the penalty or penalties
imposed under the provisions of this article. The president of the court gives the convicted person notice of this after
pronouncing his decision. The prison sentence or the fine which the court fixes may not exceed the penalties incurred
for the misdemeanour for which the judgment has been pronounced, nor those provided for by article 434-41 of the
present code. Where the provisions of the first paragraph are applied, the provisions of article 434-41 are thus not
applicable.
Subsection 4
Of penalties for petty offences
Articles 131-12 to
131-18
ARTICLE 131-12
The penalties incurred by natural persons for the commission of petty offences are:
1° a fine;
2° the penalties entailing a forfeiture or restriction or rights set out under article 131 1-14.
These penalties do not preclude the imposition of one or more of the additional penalties set out under articles
131-16 and 131-17.