Article 244 Federal Criminal Code

The crime of falsification of documents is committed by any of the following means:

I.- By placing a false signature or rubric, even if it is imaginary, or by altering a true one;

II.- By unduly taking advantage of a blank signature or rubric of another, drawing up an obligation, release or any other document that can compromise the property, the honor, the person or the reputation of another, or cause harm to society, to the State or to a third party;

III.- By altering the context of a true document, after it is concluded and signed, if this changes its meaning as to any circumstance or substantial point, whether it is done by adding, amending or erasing, in whole or in part, one or more words or clauses, or by varying the punctuation;

IV.- By varying the date or any other circumstance relating to the time of execution of the act that is expressed in the document;

V.- By attributing, the one who draws up the document, or attributing to the person in whose name he does so: a name or an investiture, status or circumstance that he does not have and that is necessary for the validity of the act;

VI.- By drafting a document in terms that change the agreement entered into into a different one that varies the declaration or disposition of the grantor, the obligations that he proposed to contract, or the rights that he should have acquired;

VII.- By adding or altering clauses or declarations, or setting down as true false facts, or as confessed those that are not, if the document in which they are set down is drawn up to record them and as proof of them;

VIII.- By issuing a supposed testimony of documents that do not exist; giving it as of another existing one that lacks the legal requirements, falsely supposing that it has them; or of another that does not lack them, but adding or suppressing in the copy something that entails a substantial variation, and

IX.- By an expert translator or paleographer altering the content of a document, when translating or deciphering it.

X.- By producing plates, badges, distinctive signs, documents or any other official identification, without having the authorization of the corresponding authority.