Federal Criminal Code
Official title: Código Penal Federal
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
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Federal Criminal Code. The federal criminal code. It defines crimes and penalties that fall under federal jurisdiction, for example crimes against health (drugs), corruption, counterfeiting and crimes against the federation. Most everyday crimes are prosecuted under the penal codes of each state. For expats and investors: it also covers corporate liability (article 11 Bis) and the consequences for legal persons.
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PRELIMINARY TITLE
CHAPTER I. General rules on crimes and responsibility
CHAPTER II. Attempt
CHAPTER III. Persons responsible for crimes
CHAPTER IV. Grounds for exclusion of the crime
CHAPTER V. Concurrence of Crimes
CHAPTER VI. Recidivism
CHAPTER I. Penalties and security measures
CHAPTER II. Imprisonment
CHAPTER III. Treatment at liberty, semi-release and work in favor of the community
CHAPTER IV. Confinement
CHAPTER V. Pecuniary sanction
CHAPTER VI. Forfeiture of Instruments, Objects and Products of the Crime
CHAPTER VII. Warning
CHAPTER VIII. Admonition and bond not to offend
CHAPTER IX. Suspension of rights
CHAPTER X. Special publication of judgment (sentencia)
CHAPTER XI. Surveillance by the authority
CHAPTER I. General rules
CHAPTER II. Application of sanctions to negligent crimes
CHAPTER III. Application of sanctions in case of attempt
CHAPTER IV. Application of sanctions in case of concurrence, continued crime, complicity, recidivism and avoidable error
CHAPTER V. Treatment of persons lacking criminal responsibility and of those who have the habit or the need to consume narcotics or psychotropic substances, in internment or at liberty
CHAPTER VI. Substitution and commutation of sanctions
CHAPTER I. Execution of judgments
CHAPTER III. Preparatory liberty and retention
CHAPTER IV. Conditional sentence
CHAPTER I. Death of the accused or sentenced person
CHAPTER II. Amnesty
CHAPTER III. Pardon of the Offended Party or of the Person Legitimated to Grant It
CHAPTER IV. Recognition of Innocence and Pardon
CHAPTER V. Rehabilitation
CHAPTER VI. Prescription
CHAPTER VII. Fulfillment of the Penalty or Security Measure
CHAPTER VIII. Suppression of the criminal offense type
CHAPTER IX. Existence of a Prior Judgment (sentencia) Rendered in a Proceeding Followed for the Same Facts
CHAPTER X. Extinction of the Treatment Measures for Persons Lacking Criminal Responsibility
CHAPTER I. Treason against the Homeland
CHAPTER II. Espionage
CHAPTER III. Sedition
CHAPTER IV. Mutiny
CHAPTER V. Rebellion
CHAPTER VI. Terrorism
CHAPTER VI BIS. Of the Financing of Terrorism
CHAPTER VII. Sabotage
CHAPTER VIII. Conspiracy
CHAPTER IX. Common provisions for the chapters of this Title
CHAPTER I. Piracy
CHAPTER II. Violation of immunity and of neutrality
CHAPTER III. INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
CHAPTER I. Violation of the duties of humanity
CHAPTER II. Genocide
Sole Chapter. Discrimination
CHAPTER I. Escape of prisoners
CHAPTER II. Breach of sanction
CHAPTER III. Prohibited weapons
CHAPTER III BIS. Improper use of remotely piloted aircraft
CHAPTER IV. Criminal associations
CHAPTER I. Attacks on communication routes and violation of correspondence
CHAPTER I BIS. Unlawful use of installations destined for air traffic.
CHAPTER II. Violation of correspondence
CHAPTER I. Disobedience and resistance by private individuals
CHAPTER II. Opposition to the execution of any public work or labor
CHAPTER III. Breach of seals
CHAPTER IV. Crimes committed against public officials
CHAPTER V. Outrages against national insignia
CHAPTER I. Of production, possession, trafficking, proselytism and other acts in matters of narcotics
CHAPTER II. Of the danger of contagion
Chapter III. Crimes against Reproductive Rights
CHAPTER I. Communication of Sexual Content with Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age or with Persons who do not have the Capacity to understand the Meaning of the Act or with Persons who do not have the Capacity to Resist it
CHAPTER II. Violation of Sexual Intimacy
CHAPTER I. Corruption of Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age or of Persons who do not have the Capacity to understand the Meaning of the Act or of Persons who do not have the Capacity to Resist it.
CHAPTER II. Pornography of Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age or of Persons who do not have the Capacity to understand the Meaning of the Act or of Persons who do not have the Capacity to Resist it.
CHAPTER III. Sexual Tourism against Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age or against Persons who do not have the Capacity to understand the Meaning of the Act or against Persons who do not have the Capacity to Resist it.
CHAPTER IV. Pandering of Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age or of Persons who do not have the Capacity to understand the Meaning of the Act or of Persons who do not have the Capacity to Resist it.
CHAPTER V. Trafficking in Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age or in Persons who do not have the Capacity to understand the Meaning of the Act or in Persons who do not have the Capacity to Resist it.
CHAPTER VI. Pandering and Trafficking in Persons.
CHAPTER VII. Provocation of a Crime and Apology for the Same or for some Vice and of the Omission to prevent a Crime that attacks the Free Development of Personality, Human Dignity or Physical or Mental Integrity.
CHAPTER VIII. Pederasty
CHAPTER IX. Forced Cohabitation of Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age or of Persons who do not have the Capacity to understand the Meaning of the Act or of Persons who do not have the Capacity to Resist it.
CHAPTER X. Crimes against the Sexual Orientation or the Gender Identity of Persons
CHAPTER I. Disclosure of secrets
CHAPTER II. Unlawful access to computer systems and equipment
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II. Unlawful exercise of public service
CHAPTER III. Abuse of authority
CHAPTER IV. Coalition of public officials
CHAPTER V. Unlawful use of attributions and powers
CHAPTER V BIS. Of the improper payment and receipt of remuneration of public officials
CHAPTER VI. Extortion
CHAPTER VII. Intimidation
CHAPTER VIII. Abusive exercise of functions
CHAPTER IX. Trafficking in Influence
CHAPTER X. Bribery
CHAPTER XI. Bribery of foreign public officials
CAPITULO XII
CHAPTER XIII. Illicit Enrichment
CHAPTER I. Crimes committed by public officials
CHAPTER II. Improper exercise of one's own right
CHAPTER I. General Provisions
CHAPTER II. Crimes of lawyers, patrons and litigants
CHAPTER I. Falsification, alteration and destruction of currency
CHAPTER II. Falsification and improper use of bearer instruments, public credit documents and documents relating to credit
CHAPTER III. Falsification of seals, keys, dies or stamps, marks, weights and measures
CHAPTER IV. Falsification of documents in general
CHAPTER V. Falsity in judicial statements and in reports given to an authority
CHAPTER VI. Variation of the name or of the domicile
CHAPTER VII. Usurpation of public functions or of profession and improper use of decorations, uniforms, hierarchical ranks, insignia, badges and acronyms
CHAPTER VIII. Provisions common to the preceding chapters
CHAPTER I. Crimes against national consumption and wealth
Chapter I. Sexual Harassment, Sexual Abuse, Statutory Rape and Rape
CHAPTER III. Incest
CHAPTER V. General Provisions
TITLE SIXTEEN. Crimes Against Civil Status and Bigamy
SOLE CHAPTER. Violation of the laws on burials and exhumations
CHAPTER I. Threats and Illegal Extrajudicial Collection
CHAPTER II. Unlawful entry into a dwelling
CHAPTER I. Injuries
CHAPTER II. Homicide
CHAPTER III. Common rules for injuries and homicide
CHAPTER IV. Homicide by reason of kinship or relationship
Chapter V. Femicide
CHAPTER VI. Abortion
CHAPTER VII. Abandonment of persons
CHAPTER EIGHTH. Family violence
SOLE CHAPTER
CHAPTER I. Robbery
CHAPTER II. Breach of trust
CHAPTER III. Fraud
Chapter III Ter. Family Fraud
CHAPTER V. Dispossession of immovable things or of waters
CHAPTER VI. Damage to another's property
CHAPTER I. Concealment
CHAPTER II. Operations with resources of illicit origin
SOLE CHAPTER
CHAPTER ONE. Of technological and dangerous activities
CHAPTER TWO. Of biodiversity
CHAPTER THREE. Of biosecurity
CHAPTER FOUR. Crimes against environmental management
CHAPTER FIVE. Provisions common to crimes against the environment
TITLE TWENTY-SIXTH. Of the Crimes in Matters of Copyright
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