Article 184Act No. 3815, Sec./Art. 184

Offering false testimony in evidence.-Any person who shall knowingly offer in evidence a false witness or testimony in any judicial or official proceeding, shall be punished as guilty of false testimony and shall suffer the respective penalties provided in this section.

CHAPTER THREE

FRAUDS

SECTION ONE.-Machinations, monopolies, and combinations

REVISED PENAL CODE TEXT AND SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

When not committed by a syndicate as above defined,

the penalty imposable shall be reclusion temporal to

reclusion perpetua if the amount of the fraud exceeds

100,000 pesos.

Section 2. This decree shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 6th day of April, in the

year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

BP Blg 22 | Bouncing Checks Law

BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 22

AN ACT PENALIZING THE MAKING OR DRAWING AND

ISSUANCE OF A CHECK WITHOUT SUFFICIENT FUNDS

OR CREDIT AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Section 1. Checks without sufficient funds. - Any person

who makes or draws and issues any check to apply on

account or for value, knowing at the time of issue that he

does not have sufficient funds in or credit with the

drawee bank for the payment of such check in full upon

its presentment, which check is subsequently dishonored

by the drawee bank for insufficiency of funds or credit or

would have been dishonored for the same reason had not

the drawer, without any valid reason, ordered the bank to

stop payment, shall be punished by imprisonment of not

less than thirty days but not more than one (1) year or by a

fine of not less than but not more than double the

amount of the check which fine shall in no case exceed

Two Hundred Thousand Pesos, or both such fine and

imprisonment at the discretion of the court.

The same penalty shall be imposed upon any person who,

having sufficient funds in or credit with the drawee bank

when he makes or draws and issues a check, shall fail to

keep sufficient funds or to maintain a credit to cover the

full amount of the check if presented within a period of

ninety (90) days from the date appearing thereon, for

which reason it is dishonored by the drawee bank.

Where the check is drawn by a corporation, company or

entity, the person or persons who actually signed the

check in behalf of such drawer shall be liable under this

Act.

Section 2. Evidence of knowledge of insufficient funds. -

The making, drawing and issuance of a check payment of

which is refused by the drawee because of insufficient

funds in or credit with such bank, when presented within

ninety (90) days from the date of the check, shall be

prima facie evidence of knowledge of such insufficiency

of funds or credit unless such maker or drawer pays the

holder

thereof

the

amount

due

thereon,

or makes

arrangements for payment in full by the drawee of such

check within (5) banking days after receiving notice that

such check has not been paid by the drawee.

Section 3. Duty of drawee; rules of evidence. - It shall be

the duty of the drawee of any check, when refusing to pay

the same to the holder thereof upon presentment, to

cause

to

be

written,

printed,

or

stamped

in

plain

language thereon, or attached thereto, the reason for

drawee's dishonor or refusal to pay the same: Provided,

That where there are no sufficient funds in or credit with

such drawee bank, such fact shall always be explicitly

stated

in

the

notice

of

dishonor

or

refusal.

In

all

prosecutions under this Act, the introduction in evidence

of any unpaid and dishonored check, having the drawee's

refusal to pay stamped or written thereon or attached

thereto, with the reason therefor as aforesaid, shall be

prima facie evidence of the making or issuance of said

check, and the due presentment to the drawee for

payment and the dishonor thereof, and that the same

was properly dishonored for the reason written, stamped

or attached by the drawee on such dishonored check.

Notwithstanding receipt of an order to stop payment, the

drawee shall state in the notice that there were no

sufficient funds in or credit with such bank for the

payment in full of such check, if such be the fact.

Section 4. Credit construed. - The word "credit" as used

herein shall be construed to mean an arrangement or

understanding with the bank for the payment of such

check.

Section 5. Liability under the Revised Penal Code. -

Prosecution under this Act shall be without prejudice to

any liability for violation of any provision of the Revised

Penal Code.

Section 6. Separability clause. - If any separable provision

of this Act be declared unconstitutional, the remaining

provisions shall continue to be in force.

Section 7. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen

days after publication in the Official Gazette.

Approved: April 3, 1979.

PD No 705 | Forestry Code

CHAPTER IV CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND PENALTIES

Section 68. Cutting, gathering and/or collecting timber

or other products without license. Any person who shall

cut, gather, collect, or remove timber or other forest

products from any forest land, or timber from alienable

and

disposable

public

lands,

or

from private lands,

without any authority under a license agreement, lease,

license or permit, shall be guilty of qualified theft as

defined and punished under Articles 309 and 310 of the

Revised

Penal

Code;

Provided,

That

in

the case of

partnership, association or corporation, the officers who

ordered the cutting, gathering or collecting shall be

liable, and if such officers are aliens, they shall, in addition

to the penalty, be deported without further proceedings

on the part of the Commission on Immigration and

Deportation.

The Court shall further order the confiscation in favor of

the government of the timber or forest products to cut,

gathered,

collected or removed, and the machinery,

equipment, implements and tools used therein, and the

forfeiture of his improvements in the area.

The

same

penalty

plus

cancellation

of

his

license

agreement,

lease,

license

or

permit

and

perpetual

disqualification from acquiring any such privilege shall be

imposed upon any licensee, lessee, or permittee who cuts

timber from the licensed or leased area of another,

without prejudice to whatever civil action the latter may

bring against the offender.

Section 69. Unlawful occupation or destruction of forest

lands. Any person who enters and occupies or possesses,

or makes kaingin for his own private use or for others any

forest land without authority under a license agreement,

lease, license or permit, or in any manner destroys such

forest land or part thereof, or causes any damage to the

timber stand and other products and forest growths

found therein, or who assists, aids or abets any other

person to do so, or sets a fire, or negligently permits a fire

to be set in any forest land shall, upon conviction, be fined

in an amount of not less than five hundred pesos

(P500.00)

nor

more

than

twenty

thousand

pesos

(P20,000.00) and imprisoned for not less than six (6)

months nor more than two (2) years for each such

offense, and be liable to the payment of ten (10) times the

rental fees and other charges which would have been

accrued had the occupation and use of the land been

authorized under a license agreement, lease, license or

permit: Provided, That in the case of an offender found

guilty of making kaingin, the penalty shall be imprisoned

for not less than two (2) nor more than (4) years and a fine

equal to eight (8) times the regular forest charges due on

the forest products destroyed, without prejudice to the

payment of the full cost of restoration of the occupied

area as determined by the Bureau.

The Court shall further order the eviction of the offender

from the land and the forfeiture to the Government of all

improvements made and all vehicles, domestic animals

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