Title II
Offence Relating to Public Administration

Chapter 1
Offence Against Officials

Section 136 Whoever, insulting the official during his duty or having done because he has performed his duty, shall be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than two thousand baht, or both.

Section 137 Whoever, giving any false information to any official, and is likely to cause damage to any person or the public, shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding six months or fine not exceeding ten thousand baht, or both.

Section 138 Whoever, resisting or obstructs an official or a person required by law to assist such official in the due exercise of his duty, shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding one year or fine not exceeding twenty thousand baht, or both.

            If such resistance or obstruction is committed by doing an act of violence or threatening to do an act of violence, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding two years or fine not exceeding forty thousand baht, or both.

Section 139 Whoever compels an official to perform an act in an unlawful manner or to refrain from the performance of his duties by means of violence or threaten to use violence shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding four years. or a fine not exceeding eighty thousand baht or both.

Section 140 If the offence according to the second paragraph of Section 138, or Section 139 is committed by the offender carrying or using any arms, or by having participation of more than three persons, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding five years or fine not exceeding one hundred thousand baht, or both.

If such offence is committed by alluding to the power of a secret society or a criminal association, whether there is such secret society or criminal association or not, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment of two to ten years and fine offorty thousand to twenty hundred thousand baht.

Section 141 Whoever, removing, damaging, destroying or rendering the seal or mark stamped to be useless or affixed by the official to anything in discharge of one's duty in witness whereof in seizing, attaching or keeping such thing, shall be imprisoned not out of two years or fined not out of forty thousand baht, or both.

Section 142 Whoever, damaging, destroying, concealing, making away with, losing or rendering any property or document seized to be useless or being kept by an official, or ordered to be sent as evidence or for execution of the law, whether the official keeps such property or document himself, or ordering such person or the other person to send or keep it, shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding three years or fine not exceeding sixty thousand baht, or both.

Section 143 Whoever, demanding, accepting or agreeing to accept a property or any other benefit for himself or the other person as a return for inducting or having induced, by dishonest or unlawful means, or by using his influence, any official, member of the State Legislative Assembly, member of the Provincial Council or member of the Municipal Assembly to exercise or not to exercise any of his functions, which is advantageous or disadvantageous to any person, shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding five years or fine not exceeding one hundred  thousand baht, or both.

Section 144 Whoever, giving, offering or agreeing to give the property or any other benefit to the official, member of State Legislative Assembly, member of Provincial Assembly or member of Municipal Assembly so as to induce such person to do or not to do any act, or to delay the doing of any act contrary to one's own duty, shall be imprisoned not out of five years or fined not out of one hundred baht, or both.

Section 145 Whoever, professing himself to be an official and exercising the functions of an official without being an official having the power to do so, shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding one year or fine not exceeding twenty thousand baht, or both.

            Any official, who has been duly ordered to discontinue further exercise of his functions still continues to exercise such functions, shall be liable likewise to the punishment as provided in the first paragraph.

Section 146 Whoever, not having the right to wear the uniform or insignia of any of official, member of State Legislative Assembly, member of Provincial Assembly or member of Municipal Assembly, or not having the right to use any of official title, rank, decoration or thing to symbolize the decoration, and to do so in order to be believed by another person that oneself has the right to wear those things, shall be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than twenty thousand baht, or both.