CRIMINAL CODE [CAP. 9. G ENERAL P ROVISION APPLICABLE TO PUBLIC OFFICERS 141. Saving the cases where the law specifically prescribes the punishment to which offences committed by public officers or servants are subject, any public officer or servant who shall be guilty of any other offence over which it was his duty to watch or which by virtue of his office he was bound to repress, shall, on conviction, be liable to the punishment laid down for such offence, increased by one degree. 71 Substituted by: III. 2002.30. General provision. Amended by: IX. 1859.10. Sub-title V OF THE V IOLATION OF PUBLIC ARCHIVES, PUBLIC O FFICES, PUBLIC P LACES OF CONFINEMENT, AND P UBLIC MONUMENTS § O F THE B REAKING OF S EALS, AND OF THE P URLOINING OF DOCUMENTS OR DEPOSITS FROM THE P UBLIC ARCHIVES OR OTHER P UBLIC O FFICES 142. (1) Whosoever shall be guilty of breaking any seal affixed by order of a public authority, shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term from one to three months. Breaking of seals. (2) Where there has been negligence on the part of the person in charge, such person shall, for the mere negligence, be liable to the same punishment laid down in subarticle (1). Negligence of person in charge. (3) In either case, the court may, in lieu of the said punishment, award a fine (multa). 143. Every theft committed by means of the breaking of any seal affixed by order of a public authority shall be deemed to be a theft aggravated by "breaking". Theft aggravated by "breaking". 144. (1) In cases of embezzlement, destruction, mutilation or purloining of documents, records or other papers, registers, acts or any effects whatsoever existing in the public archives, or in any other public offices, or delivered to any public depositary or functionary whatsoever in virtue of his office, the offender shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine (multa) of not less than four hundred and sixty-five euro and eighty-seven cents (465.87) and not more than twenty-three thousand and two hundred and ninety-three euro and seventy-three cents (23,293.73) or to imprisonment for a term from thirteen months to seven years or to both such fine and imprisonment. Embezzlement, etc., of documents, etc., from places of public deposit. Amended by: XLIX. 1981.4; V. 2005.37; L.N. 407 of 2007. (2) Where there has been negligence on the part of the archivist, registrar, recording officer, notary, or other functionary, such archivist, registrar, recording officer, notary or other functionary shall, for the mere negligence, be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term from four to six months or to a fine (multa). Negligence of functionaries.