Article 800 — Careless handing over of Official Papers.

Any public servant who: (a) issues or causes to be issued or handed over a passport, an identity card, a permit, an extract from a judgment register, a certificate of good conduct or as to poverty, or in general any document or official attestation of a personal nature, to an unknown person without having previously ascertained by all usual means of checking the identity of the said person and his right to receive the document or instrument in question; or (b) allows a person freely to use such a document or instrument although he knows that he is neither the true holder thereof, nor has the right to use it, is punishable with fine or arrest not exceeding three months.