Article 381 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE TWENTY-SECOND. Crimes against persons in their patrimony · CHAPTER I. Robbery
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
In addition to the penalty corresponding to him under articles 370, 371 and the first paragraph of article 376 Ter, the penalties provided in this article shall be applied to the offender, in the following cases:
I.- When the crime is committed in an enclosed place.
II.- When an employee or a domestic servant commits it against his employer or any of the latter's family, in whatever place he commits it.
By domestic servant is understood: the individual who for a wage, for food alone or another stipend or service, perquisites or emoluments serves another, even when he does not live in the latter's house;
III.- When a guest or boarder or any of his family or of the servants who accompany him commits it in the house where they receive hospitality, gift or entertainment;
IV.- When the owner or any of his family commits it in the house of the former, against his employees or domestic servants or against any other person;
V.- When the owners, employees, managers or servants of commercial enterprises or establishments commit it, in the places in which they provide their services to the public, and in the goods of the guests or clients, and
VI.- When it is committed by the laborers, artisans, apprentices or disciples, in the house, workshop or school in which they habitually work or learn or in the room, office, warehouse or other place to which they have free entry by the indicated character.
VII.- When it is committed while the victim is in a private or public transport vehicle;
VIII.- When it is committed taking advantage of the conditions of confusion that are produced by catastrophe or public disorder;
IX.- When it is committed by one or several armed persons, or who use or carry other dangerous objects;
X.- When it is committed against a banking, collection or other office in which funds are kept, against persons who guard them or transport them.
XI.- When it concerns parts of vehicles parked on the public way or in another place destined for their safekeeping or repair;
XII.- When it is carried out on vessels or things that are found on them;
XIII.- (Repealed)
XIV.- When it concerns files or documents of protocol, office or public archives, documents that contain obligation, release or transmission of duties that are in a judicial file, affecting some public function. If the crime is committed by the public official of the office in which the file or document is found, there shall be imposed on him, furthermore, removal and disqualification from holding another public employment, position or commission, from six months to three years;
XV.When the agent avails himself of false identifications or supposed orders of some authority;
XVI.When it is committed on roads or highways, and
XVII.When the object of the taking is railway tracks, their parts or railway equipment, the goods, valuables or merchandise that are transported by this means.
In the cases referred to in sections I, II, III, IV, V, VI, XI, XII, XIV and XV, up to five years of imprisonment.
In the cases referred to in sections VII, VIII, IX, X, XVI and XVII, from two to seven years of imprisonment.