The custodian is punished with imprisonment from one to six months where the breaking of the seals was facilitated by his negligence.
Penal Code
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Is punished with reclusion from five to ten years anyone who knowingly deteriorates, destroys, misappropriates or removes papers, registers, documents or effects kept in archives, court registries or public depositories, or entrusted to a public depositary in that capacity. Where the deterioration, destruction, misappropriation…
The public depositary is punished with imprisonment from three months to one year where the deterioration, destruction, misappropriation or removal was facilitated by his negligence. SECTION IV CRIMES AND OFFENCES OF SUPPLIERS TO THE ROYAL ARMED FORCES (Articles 278 to 281)
Any person entrusted, either individually or as a member of a company, with supplies, works or services on behalf of the Royal Armed Forces who, without having been compelled thereto by force majeure, caused the service with which he was entrusted to fail, is punished with reclusion from five to ten years and a fine which may no…
Although the service has not failed, if through negligence deliveries and works have been delayed, the guilty parties shall be punished by imprisonment of six months to three years and by a fine which may not exceed one quarter of the damages and interest, nor be less than 200 dirhams100.
If there has been fraud as to the nature, quality or quantity of the works, or labour, or of the goods supplied, the guilty parties shall be punished by imprisonment of two to five years and by a fine which may not 100 - see supra note corresponding to Article 111. - - exceed one quarter of the damages and interest, nor be less…
In the various cases provided for by this Section, prosecution may be instituted only upon complaint by the Minister of National Defence. SECTION V OFFENCES AGAINST THE REGULATION OF GAMING HOUSES, LOTTERIES AND PAWNBROKING HOUSES (Articles 282 to 286)
Shall be punished by imprisonment of three months to one year and a fine of one thousand two hundred to one hundred thousand dirhams those who, without authorization from the public authority: 1° keep a gambling house and admit the public thereto, either freely or upon presentation by affiliates, touts or persons interested in t…
The penalties and security measures prescribed in the preceding Article shall apply to the authors, organizers, administrators, employees or agents of lotteries not authorized by the public authority. Confiscation of a building put up as a lottery prize shall be replaced by a fine which may rise up to the estimated value of that building.
All operations offered to the public under any denomination whatsoever and intended to give rise to the hope of a gain to be acquired by drawing lots shall be considered lotteries.
Those who hawk, sell or distribute tickets of unauthorized lotteries and those who, by notices, advertisements, posters or by any other means of publicity, make known the existence of such lotteries, or facilitate the issue of their tickets, shall be punished by imprisonment of one to three months and by a fine of 200103 to 1.00…
Whosoever, without authorization from the public authority, establishes or keeps a pawnbroking house or house for loans on pledges or securities, shall be punished by imprisonment of one to six months and by a fine of 200104 to 5.000 dirhams. SECTION VI OFFENCES RELATING TO INDUSTRY, COMMERCE AND PUBLIC AUCTIONS (Articles 287 to 292)
Any violation of the regulation relating to products intended for export and whose object is to guarantee their good quality, their nature and their dimensions shall be punished by a fine of 200105 to 5.000 dirhams and by confiscation of the merchandise.
Shall be punished by imprisonment of one month to two years and by a fine of 200106 to 5.000 dirhams or by one of these two penalties only, whosoever, by means of violence, assault, threats or fraudulent manoeuvres, has caused or maintained, or attempted to cause or maintain, a concerted cessation of work, for the purpose of for…
Whosoever, in adjudications of ownership, usufruct or lease of immovable or movable property, of an undertaking, a supply, an operation or any service whatsoever, obstructs or disturbs, or attempts to obstruct or disturb, the freedom of auctions or tenders, by assault, violence or threats, whether before or during the auctions o…
Any association or agreement, whatever its duration and the number of its members, formed or established for the purpose of preparing or committing felonies against persons or property, constitutes the felony of criminal association, which exists by the mere fact of a common resolution to act.
Any individual belonging to the association or agreement defined in the preceding article shall be punished by imprisonment for five to ten years. The imprisonment shall be from ten to twenty years for the leaders of the association or agreement or for those who have exercised any command therein.
Except in the cases of complicity provided for in article 129, any person who, knowingly and voluntarily, supplies to the members of the association or agreement either weapons, ammunition or instruments of crime, or pecuniary contributions, means of subsistence, correspondence or transport, or a meeting place, lodging or refuge…
Any one of the offenders who, before any attempt to commit the felony forming the object of the association or agreement and before any prosecution has been commenced, has been the first to reveal to the authorities the established agreement or the existence of the association, shall benefit from an absolute discharge under the conditions provided for in articles 143 to 145.
Those who, outside the cases provided for in articles 129, 4°, 196 and 295, have voluntarily harboured a person knowing that she had committed a felony or that she was sought by the judicial authorities on account of that fact, or who, knowingly, have removed or attempted to remove the criminal from arrest or investigation or ha…
The persons designated in the preceding article shall benefit from an absolute discharge, under the conditions provided for in articles 143 to 145, where the person harboured or assisted is subsequently recognized as innocent.
1 Except in the cases of participation provided for by article 129 of this law and unless more severe penalties are provided by law, any person who has directly provoked one or more persons to commit a felony or misdemeanour, whether by speeches, shouts or threats made in public places or meetings, or by posters exposed to publi…
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Any attack or any resistance carried out with violence or assault against public officials or representatives of public authority acting in execution of orders or ordinances emanating from that authority, or of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, judicial warrants, constitutes rebellion. Threats of violence are assimilated to…
Rebellion committed by one or two persons shall be punished by imprisonment for one month to one year and a fine of 60 to 100 dirhams113. If the offender or one of them was armed, the imprisonment shall be from three months to two years and the fine from 200114 to 500 dirhams.
Rebellion committed in a gathering of more than two persons shall be punished by imprisonment for one to three years and a fine of 200115 to 1,000 dirhams. The penalty shall be imprisonment for two to five years and a fine of 200116 to 1,000 dirhams if, in the gathering, more than two individuals were carrying visible weapons. T…
Are considered weapons for the application of this Code: all firearms, all explosives117, all devices, instruments or objects that are piercing, blunt, cutting or suffocating118. 113 - After the minimum of misdemeanour fines was raised to 200 dirhams by article 2 of law No. 3-80 amending certain provisions of the Penal Code refe…
Any person who has provoked rebellion, whether by speeches made in public places or meetings, or by posters, bills, leaflets or writings, shall be punished as a co-perpetrator of rebellion.
The provocateurs as well as the leaders of the rebellion may, in addition to the penalties provided in the preceding articles, be subject to prohibition of residence for at least five years and at most ten years.
No penalty shall be imposed for acts of rebellion against rebels who, having been part of the meeting without holding any employment or function therein, withdrew at the first warning of the public authority.
Where rebellion is committed by one or more persons charged, accused or convicted by a non-final decision, already detained for another offence, the penalty imposed for that rebellion shall be cumulative, by way of derogation from article 120, with any temporary custodial sentence imposed for that other offence. 118 - Article am…
5 Without prejudice to the more serious criminal provisions, any person who, during or on the occasion of sports competitions or events or their public retransmission, by speeches, cries, calls, slogans, banners, images, statues, sculptures or by any other means, incites racial discrimination or hatred towards one or more person…
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