Article 242 Federal Criminal Code

A prison sentence of three months to three years and a fine of twenty to one thousand pesos shall be imposed:

I.- On whoever counterfeits keys, the seal of a private individual, a seal, mark, stamp or countersign of a commercial house, of a bank or of an industrial establishment; or a ticket or token of a public spectacle;

II.- On whoever counterfeits in the Republic the seals, punches or marks of a foreign nation;

III.- On whoever transfers a false seal, punch or mark, concealing this defect;

IV.- On whoever, in order to defraud another, alters the legitimate weights and measures or removes from them the true marks and passes them to false weights or measures, or makes use of these.

V.- On whoever counterfeits the national or foreign adhesive seals;

VI.- On whoever effaces any of the seals spoken of in the preceding section or the indicating mark that has already been used;

VII.- On whoever, procuring the true seals, punches, marks, etc., makes undue use of them; and

VIII.- On whoever knowingly makes use of the seals or of any other of the false objects spoken of in the preceding article and in sections I, II, V and VI of this one.