Article 228 Federal Criminal Code

Professionals, artists or technicians and their assistants shall be responsible for the crimes they commit in the exercise of their profession, in the following terms and without prejudice to the provisions contained in the General Health Law or in other norms on professional practice, as applicable:

I.- In addition to the sanctions established for the crimes that result completed, according to whether they are intentional (dolo) or negligent (culpa), they shall be applied suspension of one month to two years in the exercise of the profession or permanent in case of recidivism; and

II.- They shall be obligated to the reparation of damage for their own acts and for those of their assistants, when these act in accordance with the instructions of the former.