accomplices if the criminal irresponsibility of the director or co-director of the publication was ordered by the courts. ART.271.- The owners of newspapers, periodicals and all businesses of dissemination whatever their denomination, are responsible for the financial penalties 56 pronounced in favor of third parties against the authors, co-authors and accomplices of the offenses provided for in this section. In all cases, the recovery of fines and damages may be continued on the assets of the business. ART.272.- The civil action resulting from the offenses of defamation provided for and punished by articles 258 and 259 may not, except in the case of the death of the author of the offense or amnesty, be pursued separately from the public action. ART.273.- The penalties enacted above can be pronounced so that the various acts which constitute the elements of the offenses, would have been made in different countries. ART.274.- The convicted person may in addition be subject to a ban to exercise, directly or through an intermediary in law or in fact, of the functions of direction of any printing company, recording, reproduction, editing, grouping, distribution, publication or dissemination of a few natures that they are, however, the court may reduce this prohibition to a duration which do- will not be less than six months. Anyone who will violate the prohibition referred will be punished with the penalties provided for in article 255. ART.275.- When the person responsible for the offense is a legal person, the prosecution will be exerted against the president director general or the director, or to the delegated administrator or manager. Paragraph 7: supplementary sentences ART.276.- If there is a conviction, the decision may in the cases provided for in articles 249, 250, 255, 264 and 265, say, in addition, the confiscation of all publication media seized and, in all cases, order the seizure and removal or destruction of all published copies. However, the deletion or !a destruction may apply only to certain parts of the seized copies.