Article 105 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK ONE · TITLE FIVE. Of the Grounds for Extinction of the Criminal Action · CHAPTER VI. Prescription
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
The criminal action shall prescribe in a period equal to the arithmetic mean term of the penalty deprivative of liberty that the law indicates for the offense in question, but in no case shall it be less than three years.