Article 214 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE TEN. Crimes involving acts of corruption 18-07-2016, 05-11-2018, 12-04-2019 · CHAPTER II. Unlawful exercise of public service
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
Commits the crime of unlawful exercise of public service, the public official who:
I.- Exercises the functions of an employment, position or commission, without having taken legitimate possession, or without satisfying all the legal requirements.
II.- Continues exercising the functions of an employment, position or commission after knowing that their appointment has been revoked or that they have been suspended or removed.
III.- Having knowledge by reason of their employment, position or commission that the patrimony or the interests of any dependency or entity of the centralized federal public administration, decentralized agencies, majority state-participation company, associations and companies assimilated to these and public trusts, of State productive companies, of autonomous constitutional bodies, of the Congress of the Union or of the Judiciary, may be gravely affected, by any act or omission and does not inform their hierarchical superior in writing or does not prevent it if it is within their powers.
IV.- By themselves or through an intermediary person, unlawfully removes, destroys, hides, uses, or renders useless information or documentation that is under their custody or to which they have access, or of which they have knowledge by virtue of their employment, position or commission.
V.- By themselves or through an intermediary person, when legally required, renders reports in which they state false facts or circumstances or deny the truth in all or in part about them, and
VI.- Having the obligation by reasons of employment, position or commission, to safeguard, watch over, protect or give security to persons, places, installations or objects, failing to comply with their duty, in any form causes damage to the persons, or to the places, installations or objects, or loss or removal of objects that are under their care.
Whoever commits any of the crimes referred to in sections I and II of this article, shall be imposed one to three years of imprisonment and thirty to one hundred days fine.
The infractor of sections III, IV, V and VI shall be imposed two to seven years of imprisonment and thirty to one hundred fifty days fine.