Article 247 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE THIRTEEN. Falsity · CHAPTER V. Falsity in judicial statements and in reports given to an authority
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
From four to eight years of imprisonment and from one hundred to three hundred days fine shall be imposed:
I.- On anyone who, questioned by any public authority other than the judicial one in the exercise of its functions or on the occasion of them, fails to tell the truth.
II.Repealed.
III.- On anyone who bribes a witness, an expert or an interpreter, so that he testifies falsely in a proceeding, or obliges or commits them to do so by intimidating them or in any other way;
IV.- On anyone who, in accordance with law, in any capacity except that of a witness, is examined and fails to tell the truth to the detriment of another, denying that the signature with which he had signed the document is his or affirming a false fact or altering or denying a true one, or its substantial circumstances.
What is provided in this section does not cover the cases in which the party is examined as to the amount at which he values a thing or when he has the status of accused;
V.- On anyone who in an amparo proceeding renders reports as responsible authority, in which he affirms a falsehood or denies the truth in whole or in part.