Article 419 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
The following penalties shall be imposed on anyone who, without there being an administrative act that authorizes it or without having the documentation that proves the legal origin, transports, trades, alienates, distributes, supplies, stockpiles, buys, receives, acquires, stores, safeguards, possesses or transforms forest raw materials or timber forest products:
I.When the volume does not exceed two cubic meters, two to five years of imprisonment and a fine of five hundred to three thousand times the daily value of the Measurement and Updating Unit in force shall be imposed.
II.If the volume is greater than two cubic meters, six to twelve years of imprisonment and a fine of one thousand to five thousand times the value of the Measurement and Updating Unit in force shall be imposed.
The custodial penalties referred to in the preceding sections shall be increased by up to four years of imprisonment and a fine of up to five thousand times the daily value of the Measurement and Updating Unit in force, when the forest raw materials or timber forest products come from a natural protected area.