Article 201 Bis Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE EIGHT. CRIMES AGAINST THE FREE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY. · CHAPTER I. Corruption of Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age or of 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.
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
It is prohibited to employ persons under eighteen years of age or persons who do not have the capacity to understand the meaning of the act, in canteens, taverns, bars, clubs, vice centers or any other place where their healthy physical, mental or emotional development is negatively affected.
The contravention of this provision shall be punished with imprisonment of one to three years and of three hundred to seven hundred days fine; in case of recidivism, the definitive closure of the establishment shall be ordered.
The same penalty shall be imposed on mothers, fathers, guardians or curators who accept or promote that their daughters or sons under eighteen years of age or persons under eighteen years of age or persons who are under their guardianship, custody or tutelage be employed in the aforementioned establishments.
For the purposes of this provision, the person under eighteen years of age who, for a wage, for food alone, for a commission of any kind or for any other stipend or emolument, or gratuitously, provides services in such place shall be considered as employed in the canteen, tavern, bar or vice center.