Penal Code · English · 2015
Article 254
Aggravated Contamination or Distribution of Drinking Water, Food, Medicine or Consumable Goods
causes significant public alarm or anxiety or causes significant economic loss through public awareness of the contamination,
#is, if the offence was committed by contamination of the substances described in Article 253, guilty of aggravated contamination, a Class 7 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 5 years and not more than 7 years.
#If the offence was committed by distribution of the substances described in Article 253, the offender,
#is guilty of aggravated distribution, a Class 6 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 7 years and not more than 10 years.
#If any person exposed to a contamination or distribution as described in Article 253 dies as a direct effect of the contamination or distribution, the offender, is guilty of murder, punishable under Article 275.
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