Law nº 7895, date 27 January 1995. Criminal Code.
SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER II. OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON. CRIMES AGAINST LIFE
SECTION VIII. Criminal acts against morality
and dignity
Article 121.- Intruding into someone's
privacy
Fixing appliances which serve for hearing or
recording words or images, the hearing, recording or airing words,
fixing, taping or transmitting images, as well as their preserving for
publication or the publication of these data which expose an aspect of
the private life of the person without his consent, constitutes criminal
contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up two years of imprisonment.
Article 122. Spreading personal secrets
Spreading a secret which belongs to someone's private life by the person who obtains that [secret] because of his duty or profession, when he is compelled to not spread it without prior authorization, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to one year of imprisonment.
The same act committed with the intent of
embezzlement or of damaging another person, constitutes criminal
contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to two years of
imprisonment.
Article 123. Halting or violation of the privacy of correspondence
The carrying out intentionally of acts such as destruction, non-delivery, opening and reading letters or any other correspondence, as well as the interruption or placement under control, hearing any conversation through telephone, telegraph, or any other means of communication, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or up to two years of imprisonment
CHAPTER III. CRIMINAL ACTS RELATED TO PROPERTY OR IN THE ECONOMIC AREA
SECTION I. THEFT OF PROPERTY
Article 137. Stealing electrical power or telephone lines
Stealing electrical
power or telephone lines is sentenced to a fine or up to three years of
imprisonment.
Article 148. Publication of another person's work with own name
Publication or use partially or totally with
his own name of a work of literature, music, art or science which
belongs to another, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced
to a fine or up to one year of imprisonment.
Article 149. Unlawful reproduction of the work of another
Total or partial reproduction of a work of
literature, music, art or science which belongs to another, or if their
use is conducted without the author's
consent, when his personal and property rights are violated, constitutes
criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine.
SECTION IV. CRIMINAL ACTS COMMITTED IN CORPORATIONS
Article 165. Falsifying signatures
Falsifying signatures and deposits, or false
statement of deposits of the company's
funds, or publication of signatures and deposits of fictitious people,
or assessing the contribution in kind to a bigger value than the factual
one, is sentenced to a fine or up to five years of imprisonment.
Article 169. Revealing secrets of a company
Revealing the secrets of a company by its
certified accountant, except of the cases when he is compelled to do so
by law, constitutes criminal contravention and is sentenced to a fine or
up to two years of imprisonment.