Article 280 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
Imprisonment of from three days to two years or from 30 to 90 days fine shall be imposed:
I.- On anyone who conceals, destroys or buries a corpse or a human fetus, without the order of the authority that must give it or without the requirements that the Civil and Health Codes (Códigos Civil y Sanitario) or special laws demand;
II.- On anyone who conceals, destroys, or without the corresponding license buries the corpse of a person, provided that the death has been as a consequence of blows, wounds or other injuries, if the offender knew that circumstance.
In this case no sanction shall be applied to the ascendants or descendants, spouse or brothers of the responsible for the homicide, and
III.- On anyone who exhumes a corpse without the legal requirements or with violation of rights.