Art. 487. - Outrage on the Repose and Dignity of the Dead.
(1) Whosoever:
(a) disturbs or profancs a funeral procession or funeral service; or
(b) violates or profanes the resting place of a dead person, degrades
or defiles a funeral monument, or profanes or mutilates a dead
person, whether buried or not; or
:
(c) publicly defiles or strikes a human corpse,
is punishable with simple imprisonment or fine
(2) Whosoever carries off, makes away with or scatters a corpse or any
part thereof, or the ashes of a dead person, is liable to the same
punishments.
Art. 795. - Concealment of a Corpse.
Whosoever,
(a) has hidden, huried, drowned, cremated or caused to disappear in any
other manner a still-horn child or a child alleged to have heen still.
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horn, ora human corpse, without notifying the fact to the competent
authority, or has failed to notify to the said authority of the discovery
of a corpse; or
(h) having wounded or killed another in self defence or in a state
of necessity, failed to notify the fact forthwith to the competent
authority,
is punishable with fine or arrest.