PUESTO DE TRABAJO (P.T.)

Section 135. Any person who endangers the general peace by publicly insulting or

provoking hatred of the Constitution or any public authority or by publicly stirring up one part of the population against another, or who aids and abets thereto, shall be liable to fines or to detention or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.

Section 135 a. Any person who wilfully or through gross negligence publicly utters a discriminatory or hateful expression shall be liable to fines or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years. An expression that is uttered in such a way that it is likely to reach a large number of persons shall be deemed equivalent to a publicly uttered

expression, cf. section 7, No. 2. The use of symbols shall also be deemed to be an expression. Any person who aids and abets such an offence shall be liable to the same penalty.

A discriminatory or hateful expression here means threatening or insulting anyone, or inciting hatred or persecution of or contempt for anyone because of his or her

a) skin colour or national or ethnic origin, b) religion or life stance, or

c) homosexuality, lifestyle or orientation.

Section 136. Any person who causes the occurrence of a riot with intent to use violence against persons or property or to threaten therewith, or who aids and abets the causing of such a riot, or who during a riot in which such intent is revealed acts as a leader, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years.

If during a riot any such felony against persons or property is committed as is thereby intended, or is revealed by the participants therein to be intended, or if any felony against public authority is committed, the above-mentioned persons as well as any person

participating in the felony shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than two months and not more than five years, but to the penalty provided for the felony increased by up to 50 per cent if a more severe penalty thereby results.

Section 137. Any person who remains present or who aids and abets another person to remain present in such a riot as is mentioned in section 136 after an order to leave peacefully has been pronounced by the authorities shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, but not exceeding two years if while he is present any felony is committed against the public authorities or any such felony against persons or property as is intended by the riot, or is revealed by the participants therein to be intended.

Section 138. Any person who causes the unlawful prevention or interruption of a public function, public religious meeting, ecclesiastical act, public instruction or teaching in schools, an auction or a public meeting called for a common purpose, or who aids and abets thereto, shall be liable to fines or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

Section 139. Any person who fails to try to prevent, by timely warning to the proper authorities or otherwise, any mutiny, war-time treason, espionage, or plot for the purpose of desertion punishable according to military law, or any felony contrary to the Act relating to defence secrets, sections 1, 2, 3 or 4, or any felony mentioned in sections 83, 84, 86, 87, No. 2, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 98, 99, 99 a, 100, 104 a, 148, 149, 150, 151 a, 152, 153, 154, 159, 169, 192, 195, 197, 199, 217, 223 second paragraph, 225, 231, 233, 234,

243, 267, 268 or 269 of this code, or the results of any such felony, although he has received reliable information that the felony was impending or being committed at a time when the felony or its consequences could still have been prevented, shall be liable to fines or to detention or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year. In the case of a felony contrary to sections 197 and 199, however, such obligation only applies when the aggrieved person is under 16 years of age.

A person shall not, however, be liable to a penalty if the felony is not completed or no punishable attempt is made, or if it could not be prevented without exposing himself, or one of his next-of-kin or an innocent person to prosecution or risk to life, health, or welfare.

Any superior who has failed to prevent a felony committed in his service, as far as he was able to do so, shall be liable to the same penalty, but in no case shall the penalty exceed the penalty prescribed for the felony.

Section 140. Any person who publicly urges or instigates the commission of a criminal act or extols such an act or offers to commit or to assist in the commission of it, or who aids and abets such urging, instigation, extolling, or offer, shall be liable to fines or to detention or imprisonment for a term not exceeding eight years, but in no case to a custodial penalty exceeding two-thirds of the maximum applicable to the act itself.

Criminal acts shall here include acts the commission of which it is criminal to induce or instigate.

Section 141. Any person who by false inducements or other underhand conduct misleads another person to emigrate from the realm, or who aids and abets thereto, shall be liable to fines or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.

Section 142. Any person who by word or deed publicly insults or in an offensive or injurious manner shows contempt for any creed whose practice is permitted in the realm or for the doctrines or worship of any religious community lawfully existing here, or who aids and abets thereto, shall be liable to fines or to detention or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

A prosecution will only be instituted when it is required in the public interest.

Section 143. Any person who mistreats a corpse or unlawfully takes possession of a corpse in another's custody, or who without authority exhumes or removes a buried corpse, or who aids and abets thereto, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. Under especially extenuating circumstances fines may be imposed.

Any person who removes a corpse or takes any object from a corpse, a grave, or a monument with the intent of obtaining by such appropriation an unlawful gain for himself or another person, or who aids and abets thereto, shall be punished according to the provisions of chapter 24, regardless of whether the corpse or the object is the property of any person.

Section 144. Clergymen of the Church of Norway, priests or pastors in registered religious communities, lawyers, defence counsel in criminal cases, conciliators in matrimonial cases, medical practitioners, psychologists, chemists, midwives and nurses, as well as their subordinates or assistants, who unlawfully reveal secrets confided to them or their superiors in the course of duty, shall be liable to fines or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

A public prosecution will only be instituted when requested by the aggrieved person or required in the public interest.

Section 145. Any person who unlawfully opens a letter or other closed document or in a similar manner gains access to its contents, or who breaks into another person’s locked repository shall be liable to fines or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

The same penalty shall apply to any person who unlawfully obtains data or software which are stored or transferred by electronic or other technical means.

If damage is caused by the acquisition or use of such unlawful knowledge, or if the felony is committed for the purpose of obtaining for any person an unlawful gain, imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years may be imposed.

Any person who aids and abets such an offence shall be liable to the same penalty. A public prosecution will only be instituted when it is required in the public interest.

Section 145 a. Any person who

1. by means of concealed auditory apparatus listens in to any telephone conversation or other conversation between other persons, or to proceedings in a closed meeting in which he is not himself participating, or

2. by means of a tape-recorder or other technical device secretly records any such

conversation as is mentioned above or any proceedings in a closed meeting in which he is not himself participating, or to which he has gained admission by false pretences or by stealth, or

3. furnishes any auditory apparatus, tape-recorder, or other technical device for the above-mentioned purpose

shall be liable to fines or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.

Any person who aids and abets such an offence shall be liable to the same penalty. A public prosecution will only be instituted when it is required in the public interest. Section 145 b. Any person who unlawfully makes available to other persons passwords or other data that may provide access to a data system shall for disseminating access data be liable to fines or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

Aggravated dissemination of access data shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. In deciding whether the dissemination is aggravated, particular importance shall be attached to whether the data may give access to sensitive information, whether the dissemination is comprehensive and whether the act otherwise creates a risk of considerable harm.

Section 146. Any person who unlawfully causes a written message addressed to another person not to be delivered or not to reach in good time the person concerned, by

destroying it, concealing it, or keeping it back, or who aids and abets thereto, shall be liable to fines or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.

If the offender causes damage by the felony, or if he has acted with the intent of obtaining an unlawful gain for himself or another person, he shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years.

A public prosecution will only be instituted when requested by the aggrieved person.

Section 147. If any person unlawfully breaks into or assists another to break into a building, vessel, railway carriage, motor vehicle, or aircraft or into any room therein or into a closed courtyard or similar storage place or place of sojourn by damaging any object designed for protection against intruders, or by means of a picklock, false key, or key unlawfully taken from the possessor, is guilty of burglary.

Any person who is guilty of burglary, or who aids and abets thereto, shall be liable to fines or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year. If the felony is committed by an armed person, or by two or more persons acting in concert, imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years may be imposed, but not exceeding four years if it is committed with the intent to prepare the way for another felony.

The same penalty shall apply to any person who by violent or threatening conduct seeks forcibly to gain for himself or another unlawful admission to or to remain in such a place, or who unlawfully sneaks into an inhabited building or room which is usually kept closed at night for the purpose of being locked in there, or who by means of a disguise or a pretence or misuse of some public capacity or order, or by use of a document that is false or belongs to another person, obtains for himself or another person unlawful admission to or an opportunity to remain in an inhabited building or room, or who aids and abets thereto.