Article 196. The forgery, manufacture, or selling of forged documents, stamps, seals, or blank forms
The forgery of a certificate or other document issued by a state institution or enterprise or a social organization, granting rights or providing exemption from obligations, or the purpose of the utilization of such document by the forger himself or by another person, or the selling of such a document, or the manufacture of forged stamps, seals, or blank forms of state institutions and enterprises or social organisations for the same purposes, or for their sale—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed two years, or by corrective labor for a period not to exceed one year.
The same acts, when committed regularly and repeatedly—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed five years, or by exile for the same period.
The utilization of a document known to be forged—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed one year, or by corrective labor for the same period, or by a fine not to exceed 300 rubles.
Article 197. Violation of the regulations governing entry into, or sojourn in, a border zone
Violation of the regulations governing entry into, sojourn in, or the visaing of passports in, a border zone, when committed subsequent to the imposition of administrative penalty for the same violation—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed six months, or by corrective labor for the same period, or by a fine not to exceed 500 rubles.
Article 198. Violation of passport regulations
The willful violation of passport regulations in areas where special regulations are in force respecting sojourn and the visaing of passports, if such violation is manifested in sojourning without a passport or without a visa, and if the person in question has been subjected to administrative penalty for said violation on two previous occasions—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period not to exceed one year, or by corrective labor for the same period, or by a fine not to exceed 500 rubles.
