Article 289 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE NINETEENTH. Crimes against life and bodily integrity · CHAPTER I. Injuries
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
On anyone who inflicts an injury that does not put in danger the life of the offended party and takes less than fifteen days to heal, from three to eight months of imprisonment, or from thirty to fifty days fine, or both sanctions at the judgment of the judge shall be imposed on him. If it takes more than fifteen days to heal, from four months to two years of imprisonment and from sixty to two hundred seventy days fine shall be imposed on him.
In these cases, the crime shall be prosecuted by complaint, except in the one that Article 295 contemplates, in which case it shall be prosecuted ex officio.