Article 70 Federal Criminal Code

Imprisonment may be substituted, in the judgment of the adjudicator, assessing the provisions of Articles 51 and 52, in the following terms:

I.By work in favor of the community or semi-liberty, when the penalty imposed does not exceed four years;

II.By treatment in liberty, if the imprisonment does not exceed three years, or

III.By fine, if the imprisonment does not exceed two years.

The substitution may not be applied to whoever previously has been convicted in a final judgment for an intentional offense that is prosecuted ex officio. Nor shall it be applied to whoever is convicted for any offense of those indicated in section I of Article 85 of this Code.