Article 430 — Use of Pretended Authority.

Whoever, promising to perform certain things, solicits or accepts an undue advantage or gift from another: a) by pretending to be still on active duty while he has been suspended, transferred, removed or dismissed from or has quitted his public office; or b) by entertaining the belief of becoming a public servant in the future; or c) by holding himself on to be a public servant, is punishable according to the circumstances of the case, with simple imprisonment, or with rigorous imprisonment not exceeding ten years.