CPF · Article 417

Article 417 Federal Criminal Code

BOOK TWO · TITLE TWENTY-FIFTH. Crimes Against the Environment and Environmental Management · CHAPTER TWO. Of biodiversity

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

A penalty of one to nine years of imprisonment and from three hundred to three thousand days fine shall be imposed on anyone who introduces into the national territory, or traffics with forest resources, flora or wild fauna, alive or dead, their products or derivatives, that carry, suffer from or have suffered, as applicable, any contagious disease, that causes or may cause its dissemination or propagation or the contagion of the flora, the fauna, the forest resources or the ecosystems.

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Federal Criminal Code, Article 417. https://articuladomx.com/en/federal-criminal-code/article-417/

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Corpus 2026.10.08