Section 19. Prohibited Acts. —

Any person, group or corporation who commits any of the following prohibited acts shall be held liable and be subjected to the penalties as prescribed in Section 20 of this Act:

1. Dereliction of duties which leads to destruction, loss of lives, critical damage of facilities and misuse of funds;

2. Preventing the entry and distribution of relief goods in disaster-stricken areas, including appropriate technology, tools, equipment, accessories, disaster teams/experts;

3. Buying, for consumption or resale, from disaster relief agencies any relief goods, equipment or other aid commodities which are intended for distribution to disaster affected communities;

4. Buying, for consumption or resale, from the recipient disaster affected persons any relief goods, equipment or other aid commodities received by them;

5. Selling of relief goods, equipment or other aid commodities which are intended for distribution to disaster victims;

6. Forcibly seizing relief goods, equipment or other aid commodities intended for or consigned to a specific group of victims or relief agency;

7. Diverting or misdelivery of relief goods, equipment or other aid commodities to persons other than the rightful recipient or consignee,

8. Accepting, possessing, using or disposing relief goods, equipment or other aid commodities not intended for nor consigned to him/her;

9. Misrepresenting the source of relief goods, equipment or other aid commodities by:

   1. Either covering, replacing or defacing the labels of the containers to make it appear that the goods, equipment or other aid commodities came from another agency or persons;

   2. Repacking the goods, equipment or other aid commodities into containers with different markings to make it appear that the goods, came from another agency or persons or was released upon the instance of a particular agency or persons;

   3. Making false verbal claim that the goods, equipment or other aid commodity in its untampered original containers actually came from another agency or persons or was released upon the instance of a particular agency or persons;

10. Substituting or replacing relief goods, equipment or other aid commodities with the same items or inferior/cheaper quality;

11. Illegal solicitations by persons or organizations representing others as defined in the standards and guidelines set by the NDRRMC;

12. Deliberate use of false or inflated data in support of the request for funding, relief goods, equipment or other aid commodities for emergency assistance or livelihood projects; and

13. Tampering with or stealing hazard monitoring and disaster preparedness equipment and paraphernalia.