Article 399 Bis Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE TWENTY-SECOND. Crimes against persons in their patrimony · CHAPTER VI. Damage to another's property
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
The crimes provided in this title shall be prosecuted by complaint of the offended party when they are committed by an ascendant, descendant, spouse, relatives by consanguinity up to the second degree, concubine or concubinary, adopter or adopted and relatives by affinity likewise up to the second degree. A complaint shall equally be required for the prosecution of third persons who have incurred in the execution of the crime with the subjects referred to in the preceding paragraph. If some other act is committed that by itself constitutes a crime, the sanction that the law indicates for it shall be applied.
The crimes provided in articles 380 and 382 to 399 shall be prosecuted by complaint, except article 390 and the cases referred to in the last two paragraphs of articles 395 and 399.