Article 69 Bis Federal Criminal Code
BOOK ONE · TITLE THREE. Application of Sanctions · CHAPTER V. Treatment of persons lacking criminal responsibility and of those who have the habit or the need to consume narcotics or psychotropic substances, in internment or at liberty
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
If the capacity of the perpetrator to understand the unlawful character of the act or to determine himself in accordance with that understanding is only diminished by the causes indicated in section VII of Article 15 of this Code, in the judgment of the adjudicator, as applicable, up to two thirds of the penalty that would correspond to the offense committed shall be imposed on him, or the security measure referred to in Article 67 or both, in case of being necessary, taking into account the degree of impairment of the imputability of the perpetrator.