Article 167 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE FIVE. Crimes in matters of communication routes and correspondence · CHAPTER I. Attacks on communication routes and violation of correspondence
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
One to five years of imprisonment and one hundred to ten thousand days fine shall be imposed:
I.- For the sole act of removing or modifying without due authorization: one or more sleepers, rails, spikes, screws, plates and other similar objects that hold them, or a railroad switch of public use;
II.- To the person who destroys or separates one or more poles, insulators, wires, machines or devices, used in the telegraph service; any of the components of the telecommunications network used in the telephone, switching or radiocommunication service, or any component of a facility for the production of magnetic or electromagnetic energy or its transmission means;
III.- To the person who, in order to stop vehicles on a public road, or prevent the passage of a locomotive, or cause the latter or the cars to derail, removes or destroys the objects mentioned in section I, places any hindrance, or any suitable obstacle;
IV.- For the burning of a car, or of any other vehicle destined for the transport of cargo and that is not part of a train in which any person is found;
V.- To the person who floods in whole or in part a public road or pours water over it in a manner that causes damage;
VI.- To the person who intentionally or for profit interrupts or interferes with wire, wireless or fiber optic communications, whether telegraph, telephone or satellite, by means of which audio, video or data signals are transferred;
VII.To the person who destroys in whole or in part, or paralyses by another means of those specified in the preceding sections, a machine used on a railroad, or a vessel, or destroys or damages a bridge, a dike, a causeway or road, or a track;
VIII.To the person who, with the object of harming or hindering communications, modifies or alters the mechanism of a vehicle causing it to lose power, speed or safety, and
IX.To the person who spreads or transmits false information that in any form harms or may harm the safety of an aircraft, of a ship or of another type of vehicle of federal public service.