ART.337.- The guilty of kidnapping, of receiving or deletion of a child, of substitution of one child for another, or assumption of a child to a woman who has not given birth. will be punished by imprisonment of five to ten years. The same penalty shall be imposed on those who, being responsible for a child, does not represent the point to the people who will have the right to claim it. ART.338.- Any person who, having attended a birth, will not made the declaration to it prescribed by the regulations of the civil status, shall be punishable with imprisonment of one to six months and a fine of 15,000 to 75,000 francs, or with only one of these two penalties. ART.339.- Any person who, having found a new-born child will not reset to the officer of civil status, shall be punishable by the penalties brought in the previous article. This provision is not applicable to that which would have consented to take charge of the child and which would have made his statement in this regard before the administrative authority of the place where the child was found. ART.340.- those who will expose or caused exposure, abandoned or fact abandon in an isolated place, a child or incapable person, not in a state to protect themselves by reason of their physical or mental condition, will be for this fact alone sentenced to a prison term of one to three years and a mended from 15,000 to 150,000 francs. ART.341.- The sentence scope to the previous article will be from two to five years and a fine of 30,000 to 250,000 francs against the ascendants or any other persons having authority over the child or incapable or having custody. ART.342.- If it is from the exposure or neglect a disease or a total inability of more than twenty days, the maximum penalty will be applied. If the child or incapable person is remains mutilated or crippled or if it is rest reaches a permanent disability, the guilty will suffer the penalty of imprisonment of five to ten years. If the culprits are the persons mentioned in article 341, 1a sentence will be of ten years of imprisonment. When the exposure or neglect in an isolated place will have led the death, the action will be considered as a murder.

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