Article 61 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK ONE · TITLE THREE. Application of Sanctions · CHAPTER II. Application of sanctions to negligent crimes
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
In the cases to which the first part of the first paragraph of the preceding article refers, the reparation of damage is excepted. Whenever the intentional crime corresponds to an alternative sanction that includes a penalty not depriving of liberty, that situation shall benefit the person responsible for the negligent (culposo) crime.