Art. 10 Interdiction. — CRIMINAL CODE

(1) Interdiction is either general or special.

(2) General interdiction disqualifies the person sentenced for

any public office or employment, generally.

(3) Special interdiction disqualifies the person sentenced from

holding some particular public office or employment, or from the

exercise of a particular profession, art, trade, or right, according to

the law in each particular case.

(4) Either kind of interdiction may be for life or for a stated

time.

(5) Temporary interdiction shall be for a time not exceeding

five years, except where the law especially prescribes a longer

time.

(6) Interdiction, whether for life or for a stated time, may, upon

the application of the person sentenced to such punishment and on

good grounds being shown to the satisfaction of the court by which

the sentence was awarded, be discontinued at any time by order of

the said court.

(7) The court shall order a sentence awarding general or special

interdiction or a decree ordering the discontinuance thereof to be

published in the Gazette, but, in respect of a decree ordering

discontinuance as aforesaid, at the expense of the person

concerned.

(8) If any person sentenced to interdiction, shall infringe any of

the obligations arising from that punishment, he shall, on

conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding

three months and to a fine (multa).

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