CPF · Article 340

Article 340 Federal Criminal Code

BOOK TWO · TITLE NINETEENTH. Crimes against life and bodily integrity · CHAPTER VII. Abandonment of persons

Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026

To whoever finds abandoned in any place a minor incapable of caring for himself or a wounded, invalid person or a person threatened by any danger, there shall be imposed from ten to sixty working days in favor of the community if he does not immediately give notice to the authority or omits to provide them the necessary aid when he could do so without personal risk.

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Federal Criminal Code, Article 340. https://articuladomx.com/en/federal-criminal-code/article-340/

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