Article 246 Federal Criminal Code

The following shall also incur the penalty established in Article 243:

I.- The official or employee who, by deceit or surprise, causes someone to sign a public document, which he would not have signed knowing its content;

II.- The Notary and any other public official who, in the exercise of his functions, issues a certification of facts that are not true, or attests to what does not appear in the record, registries, protocols or documents;

III.- Whoever, in order to be exempted from a service legally owed, or from an obligation imposed by the law, presents a certification of illness or impediment that he does not have as issued by a physician or surgeon, whether the person to whom he attributes it really exists, or whether this is imaginary or whether he takes the name of a real person, falsely attributing to them the status of physician or surgeon;

IV.- The physician who falsely certifies that a person has an illness or other impediment sufficient to exempt him from providing a service that the law requires, or from fulfilling an obligation that it imposes, or to acquire some right;

V.- Whoever makes use of a true certification issued for another, as if it had been in his favor, or alters the one issued to him;

VI.- The persons in charge of the telegraphic, telephonic or radio service who suppose or falsify a dispatch of that class;

VII.- The certification services provider who carries out activities without having the respective accreditation, in the terms established by the Code of Commerce and other applicable provisions, and

VIII.- Whoever knowingly makes use of a false document or of a copy, transcription or testimony thereof, whether public or private.