Article 113 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
Unless the law provides otherwise, the penalty deprivative of liberty shall prescribe in a time equal to that fixed in the conviction and one fourth more, but it may not be less than three years; the penalty of fine shall prescribe in one year; the other sanctions shall prescribe in a period equal to that which they should last and one fourth more, and it may not be less than two years; those that have no time limit shall prescribe in two years. The periods shall be counted from the date on which the resolution becomes final.