Article 657 — False Registration, Supposition and Substitution

of Infants. (1) Whoever suppresses or falsifies a fact to be entered into the register of the civil status of another, especially by registering or causing to be registered a false declaration concerning the identity or birth of an infant, is punishable with simple imprisonment. (2) In cases entailing or likely to entail grave foreseeable consequences, especially in the case of registration by substituting one infant for another, the punishment shall be rigorous imprisonment not exceeding five years.