Article 173

Falsification of wireless, cable, telegraph and telephone messages, and use of said falsified messages.

-The penalty of prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods shall be imposed upon any officer or employee of the Government or of any private corporation or concern engaged in the service of sending or receiving wireless, cable or telephone messages who utters a fictitious wireless, telegraph or telephone message of any system or falsifies the same.

Any person who shall use such falsified dispatch to the prejudice of a third party or with the intent to cause such prejudice, shall suffer the penalty next lower in degree.

SECTION FIVE.-Falsification of medical certificates, certificates of merit or service and the like