SANCIONES

The landlord who charges more than the rent that, in accordance with this law, corresponds to be paid, shall be sanctioned with a fine of fifty quetzales (Q.50.00) to three hundred quetzales (Q.300.00), and shall remain obliged, moreover, to return to the tenant all the excesses that he has charged, whether in cash or compensating them in rentals.

The violation of the legal oath required by the first paragraph of Article 13 shall be sanctioned as the crime of perjury.

Every violation of the present law not specifically sanctioned in it and the contraventions of the first paragraph of Article 15, of Article 16, of the final paragraph of Article 17, of Article 19, of Article 23, of the final paragraph of Article 28, of Articles 30, 32, 35 and 36, of the final paragraph of Article 39, as well as the prolongation of the judicial terms fixed in this legal body, shall be sanctioned with fines no less than ten quetzales (Q.10.00) nor greater than two hundred quetzales (Q.200.00), which the respective tribunal or the superior on appeal, or the hierarchical superior in administrative matters, as the case may be, shall impose. The judge who gives processing to any of the defenses prohibited by Article 45 shall incur an equal sanction.

The obligation to pay the fines and the right to collect the excesses in the payment of rent prescribe after two years.

Every fine must be paid into the Judicial Funds Treasury or its agencies within the ten days following the date on which the decision is served as notice.

The fines imposed on the landlord may be covered by the tenant, by order of the judge, who shall fix the form in which the tenant is reimbursed for them.