Enacted parts

ARTICLE 223-15-3
(Inserted by Act no. 2001-504 of 12 June 2001 Article 10 Official Journal of 13 June 2001)
Natural persons convicted of the misdemeanour under the present section also incur the following additional
penalties:
1° forfeiture of civic, civil and family rights, pursuant to the conditions set out under article 131-26;
2° prohibition, in accordance with the provisions of article 131-27, to exercise for a period of up to five years the
professional or social activity in the exercise of which, or on the occasion of which, the offence was committed;
3° the closure, for a period of up to five years, of the establishments or one or more of the establishments of
enterprise used to commit the offences in question;
4° confiscation of the thing which was used in or was intended to be used in the commission of the offence, or of the
thing which is the product of it, except for articles liable to restitution;
5° area banishment, in accordance with the provisions of article 131-31;
6° prohibition to draw cheques, for a period of up to five years, except for those enabling the withdrawal of funds by
the drawer from the drawee or certified cheques;
7° the public display or dissemination of the decision pronounced, in the manner as set out under article 131-35.
ARTICLE 223-15-4
(Inserted by Act no. 2001-504 of 12 June 2001 Article 10 Official Journal of 13 June 2001)
Legal persons may incur criminal liability for the offence defined in this Section of the present Code under the
conditions set out in article 121-2.
The penalties applicable to legal persons are:
1° a fine, pursuant to the conditions set out under article 131-38;
2° the penalties set out in article 131-39;
The prohibition determined under 2° of article 131-39 applies to the activity in the exercise of which or on the
occasion of the exercise of which the offence was committed.
SECTION VII
ADDITIONAL PENALTIES APPLICABLE TO NATURAL PERSONS
Articles 223-16 to
223-20