Article 283 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE EIGHTEENTH. Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Persons · CHAPTER I. Threats and Illegal Extrajudicial Collection
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
A bond not to offend shall be required:
I.- If the damages with which it is threatened are slight or avoidable;
II.- If the threats are by means of emblems or signs, hieroglyphs or phrases of double sense, and
III.- If the threat has as condition that the threatened person does not execute an unlawful act in itself. In this case a bond shall also be required of the threatened person, if the judge deems it necessary.
On anyone who does not grant the bond not to offend, imprisonment of from three days to six months shall be imposed on him.