Article 107 Bis 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 term of prescription of the offenses provided for in Title Eighth of Book Second of this Code committed against a victim who is a person under eighteen years of age shall begin to run from the moment that the latter reaches the age of majority, with the exception of the offenses provided for in Articles 200, 201, 202, 203, 203 Bis, 204 and 209 Bis of this Code, which shall be imprescriptible.
In the case of those 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, it shall run from the moment in which there exists evidence of the commission of those offenses before the Public Prosecutor's Office.
In the cases of the offenses against liberty and normal psychosexual development, as well as those provided for in the General Law to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Offenses on the Matter of Trafficking in Persons and for the Protection and Assistance of the Victims of these Offenses, that have been committed against a person under eighteen years of age, the rules for the prescription of the criminal action contained in this chapter shall be observed, but the computation of the periods shall begin on the day on which the victim reaches the age of majority, with the exception of the offenses provided for in Articles 261, 262 and 266 of this Code, which shall be imprescriptible.