Article 249 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE THIRTEEN. Falsity · CHAPTER VI. Variation of the name or of the domicile
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
From ten to one hundred eighty working days in favor of the community shall be imposed:
I.- On anyone who conceals his name or surname and takes an imaginary one or that of another person, when declaring before the judicial authority;
II.- On anyone who, in order to elude the practice of a judicial proceeding or a notification of any kind or a summons of an authority, conceals his domicile, or designates another different one or denies the true one in any way, and
III.- On the public official or employee who, in the acts proper to his position, attributes to a person a title or name knowing that it does not belong to him.