A fine of €150,000 shall be imposed on the founders, chairman, directors or managing directors of a public limited company for issuing or trading in shares or share fractions without at least half of the cash shares having been paid up on subscription or without the contributed shares having been paid up in full before the company is registered in the Trade and Companies Register.
The penalty provided for in this article may be doubled where the shares or share denominations have been offered to the public, with the exception of the offers mentioned in 1° or 2° of Article L. 411-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code or Article L. 411-2-1 of the same code.