Article 280 Bis Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE SEVENTEENTH. Crimes in matters of burials and exhumations · SOLE CHAPTER. Violation of the laws on burials and exhumations
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
A penalty of from five to eight years of imprisonment and from five hundred to one thousand days fine shall be imposed, on anyone who incinerates, buries, disintegrates or destroys in total or partial form the corpse or human remains of a non-identified person, without authorization of the competent authorities in the matter.