Article 115 Federal Criminal Code

The prescription of the sanction deprivative of liberty is only interrupted by apprehending the person charged, even if the apprehension is executed for a different offense, or by the formal request for delivery that the Public Prosecutor's Office of a federal entity makes to that of another in which the former is detained, in which case the interruption shall subsist until the requested authority denies said delivery or the legal situation of the detainee that motivates postponing the compliance of what was requested disappears.

The prescription of the other sanctions shall be interrupted by any act of a competent authority to make them effective. The prescription of the penalty of reparation of damage or of others of a pecuniary character shall also be interrupted by the applications that the offended person or the person in whose favor said reparation has been decreed files before the corresponding tax authority, and by the proceedings that authority carries out to execute them, as well as by the initiation of an executive proceeding before a civil authority using the corresponding conviction judgment as the basis for enforcement.