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Any person, official, or public or private institution with the obligation of furnishing information pursuant to the provisions of either § 444 or 446 of this title, and who voluntarily and deliberately fails to comply with that obligation, or who fails to perform any other act required by this chapter, or deliberately prevents another person acting reasonably from doing so, or who deliberately furnishes false information or advises another person to do so, shall incur a misdemeanor and if convicted shall be sanctioned by a fine up to five thousand dollars ($5000) or by imprisonment up to ninety (90) days. Any information furnished which is found to be false and whose natural or probable consequence is deemed to have interfered in the legitimate exercise of custody, parental rights and patria potestas, shall be referred by the competent authority to the Department of Justice for evaluation and the subsequent corresponding prosecution. History —Aug. 1, 2003, No. 177, § 73; Aug. 14, 2008, No. 276, § 1.

Any person, official, or public or private institution with the obligation of furnishing information pursuant to the provisions of either § 444 or 446 of this title, and who voluntarily and deliberately fails to comply with that obligation, or who fails to perform any other act required by this chapter, or deliberately prevents another person acting reasonably from doing so, or who deliberately furnishes false information or advises another person to do so, shall incur a misdemeanor and if convicted shall be sanctioned by a fine up to five thousand dollars ($5000) or by imprisonment up to ninety (90) days. Any information furnished which is found to be false and whose natural or probable consequence is deemed to have interfered in the legitimate exercise of custody, parental rights and patria potestas, shall be referred by the competent authority to the Department of Justice for evaluation and the subsequent corresponding prosecution. History —Aug. 1, 2003, No. 177, § 73; Aug. 14, 2008, No. 276, § 1.