Article 292 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
From five to eight years of imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who inflicts an injury from which a sure or probably incurable disease results, the complete uselessness or the loss of an eye, of an arm, of a hand, of a leg or of a foot, or of any other organ; when any organic function remains prejudiced forever, or when the offended party remains deaf, impotent or with an incorrigible deformity.
From six to ten years of imprisonment shall be imposed, on anyone who inflicts an injury as a consequence of which permanent incapacity to work, mental derangement, the loss of sight or of speech or of the sexual functions results.