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.