CPF · Article 281

Article 281 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

From one to five years of imprisonment shall be imposed:

I.- On anyone who violates a tomb, a sepulcher, a grave or a coffin, and

II.- On anyone who profanes a corpse or human remains with acts of vilification, mutilation, brutality or necrophilia. If the acts of necrophilia consist in the performance of coitus, the prison penalty shall be from four to eight years.

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Federal Criminal Code, Article 281. https://articuladomx.com/en/federal-criminal-code/article-281/

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Corpus 2026.10.08