Article 171Act No. 3815, Sec./Art. 171

Falsification by public officer, employee or notary or ecclesiastic minister.-The penalty of prision mayor and a fine not to exceed 5,000 pesos shall be imposed upon any public officer, employee, or notary who, taking advantage of his official position, shall falsify a document by committing any of the following acts:

1. Counterfeiting or imitating any handwriting, signature or rubric;

2. Causing it to appear that persons have participated in any act or proceeding when they did not in fact so participate;

3. Attributing to persons who have participated in an act or proceeding statements other than those in fact made by them;

4. Making untruthful statements in a narration of facts;

5. Altering true dates;

6. Making any alteration or intercalation in a genuine document which changes its meaning;

7. Issuing in authenticated form a document purporting to be a copy of an original document when no such original exists, or including in such copy a statement contrary to, or different from, that of the genuine original; or

8. Intercalating any instrument or note relative to the issuance thereof in a protocol, registry, or official book.

The same penalty shall be imposed upon any ecclesiastical minister who shall commit any of the offenses enumerated in the preceding paragraphs of this article, with respect to any record or document of such character that its falsification may affect the civil status of persons.

REVISED PENAL CODE TEXT AND SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

be included in the respective budgets of the CHR and the

DOJ in the annual General Appropriations Act.

Section 31. Separability Clause. –If for any reason, any

section

or

provision

of

this

Act

is

declared

unconstitutional

or

invalid,

such

other

sections

or

provisions not affected thereby shall remain in full force

and effect.

Section

32.

Repealing

Clause.

–

All

laws,

decrees,

executive

orders,

rules

and

regulations

and

other

issuances

or

parts

thereof

inconsistent

with

the

provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, amended or

modified accordingly.

Section 33. Effectivity Clause. – This Act shall take effect

fifteen (15) days after its publication in at least two (2)

newspapers of general circulation or the Official Gazette,

which shall not be later than seven (7) days after the

approval thereof.

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RA No 8049 | Hazing Regulation Act

REPUBLIC ACT No. 8049

AN ACT REGULATING HAZING AND OTHER FORMS OF

INITIATION RITES IN FRATERNITIES, SORORITIES, AND

OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND PROVIDING PENALTIES

THEREFOR

Section 1. Hazing, as used in this Act, is an initiation rite or

practice as a prerequisite for admission into membership

in a fraternity, sorority or organization by placing the

recruit, neophyte or applicant in some embarrassing or

humiliating situations such as forcing him to do menial,

silly,

foolish

and

other

similar

tasks

or activities or

otherwise subjecting him to physical or psychological

suffering or injury.

The term "organization" shall include any club or the

Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National

Police, Philippine Military Academy, or officer and cadet

corp of the Citizen's Military Training and Citizen's Army

Training. The physical, mental and psychological testing

and training procedure and practices to determine and

enhance the physical, mental and psychological fitness of

prospective regular members of the Armed Forces of the

Philippines

and

the

Philippine

National

Police

as

approved by the Secretary of National Defense and the

National Police Commission duly recommended by the

Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of the Philippines and the

Director General of the Philippine National Police shall

not be considered as hazing for the purposes of this Act.

Section 2. No hazing or initiation rites in any form or

manner by a fraternity, sorority or organization shall be

allowed

without

prior

written

notice

to

the

school

authorities or head of organization seven (7) days before

the conduct of such initiation. The written notice shall

indicate the period of the initiation activities which shall

not exceed three (3) days, shall include the names of

those to be subjected to such activities, and shall further

contain an undertaking that no physical violence be

employed by anybody during such initiation rites.

Section 3. The head of the school or organization or their

representatives

must

assign

at

least

two

(2)

representatives of the school or organization, as the case

may be, to be present during the initiation. It is the duty

of such representative to see to it that no physical harm of

any kind shall be inflicted upon a recruit, neophyte or

applicant.

Section 4. If the person subjected to hazing or other

forms of initiation rites suffers any physical injury or dies

as a result thereof, the officers and members of the

fraternity,

sorority

or

organization

who

actually

participated in the infliction of physical harm shall be

liable

as

principals.

The

person

or

persons

who

participated in the hazing shall suffer:

1. The penalty of reclusion perpetua (life imprisonment) if

death, rape, sodomy or mutilation results there from.

2. The penalty of reclusion temporal in its maximum

period (17 years, 4 months and 1 day to 20 years) if in

consequence of the hazing the victim shall become

insane, imbecile, impotent or blind.

3. The penalty of reclusion temporal in its medium period

(14 years, 8 months and one day to 17 years and 4 months)

if in consequence of the hazing the victim shall have lost

the use of speech or the power to hear or to smell, or shall

have lost an eye, a hand, a foot, an arm or a leg or shall

have lost the use of any such member shall have become

incapacitated for the activity or work in which he was

habitually engaged.

4. The penalty of reclusion temporal in its minimum

period (12 years and one day to 14 years and 8 months) if

in consequence of the hazing the victim shall become

deformed or shall have lost any other part of his body, or

shall have lost the use thereof, or shall have been ill or

incapacitated for the performance on the activity or work

in which he was habitually engaged for a period of more

than ninety (90) days.

5. The penalty of prison mayor in its maximum period (10

years and one day to 12 years) if in consequence of the

hazing the victim shall have been ill or incapacitated for

the performance on the activity or work in which he was

habitually engaged for a period of more than thirty (30)

days.

6. The penalty of prison mayor in its medium period (8

years and one day to 10 years) if in consequence of the

hazing the victim shall have been ill or incapacitated for

the performance on the activity or work in which he was

habitually engaged for a period of ten (10) days or more,

or

that

the

injury

sustained

shall

require

medical

assistance for the same period.

7. The penalty of prison mayor in its minimum period (6

years and one day to 8 years) if in consequence of the

hazing the victim shall have been ill or incapacitated for

the performance on the activity or work in which he was

habitually engaged from one (1) to nine (9) days, or that

the injury sustained shall require medical assistance for

the same period.

8. The penalty of prision correccional in its maximum

period (4 years, 2 months and one day to 6 years) if in

consequence of the hazing the victim sustained physical

injuries which do not prevent him from engaging in his

habitual activity or work nor require medical attendance.

The responsible officials of the school or of the police,

military

or

citizen's

army

training organization, may

impose the appropriate administrative sanctions on the

person or the persons charged under this provision even

before their conviction. The maximum penalty herein

provided

shall

be

imposed

in

any of the following

instances:

(a)

when

the

recruitment is accompanied by force,

violence, threat, intimidation or deceit on the person of

the recruit who refuses to join;

(b)

when

the recruit, neophyte or applicant initially

consents to join but upon learning that hazing will be

committed on his person, is prevented from quitting;

(c)

when

the

recruit,

neophyte

or applicant having

undergone

hazing

is

prevented

from

reporting

the

unlawful act to his parents or guardians, to the proper

school authorities, or to the police authorities, through

force, violence, threat or intimidation;

(d) when the hazing is committed outside of the school or

institution; or

(e) when the victim is below twelve (12) years of age at the

time of the hazing.

The owner of the place where hazing is conducted shall

be

liable

as

an

accomplice,

when

he

has

actual

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