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Fine is not
more than Suspension or
Arresto menor Arresto mayor Prisión correccional Prisión mayor Reclusión temporal Reclusión
Crime mitigating circumstances censure (unless disqualification perpetua
Death
specified) Min Med Max Min Med Max Min Med Max Min Med Max Min Med Max
Expulsion Yes
₱40,000 to
Act tending to prevent the meeting of the Assembly and similar bodies Yes
₱400,000
If leader Yes
₱40,000 to
Disobedience to summons Yes
₱200,000
₱40,000 to
Unlawful use of means of publication and unlawful utterances Yes
₱200,000
Counterfeiting, importing and uttering instruments not payable to bearer ₱1,200,000 Yes
Offering false testimony in evidence Depends on the penalties for any of the false testimony crimes.
₱20,000 to
If recidivist Yes
Prostitution ₱200,000
Perpetual absolute
Knowingly rendering unjust judgment Yes
disqualification
Temporary special
Judgment rendered through negligence Yes
disqualification
₱40,000 to
Frauds against the public treasury and similar offenses Yes
₱2,000,000
Temporary special
disqualification in its
Other frauds maximum period to
perpetual special
disqualification
₱40,000 to
Prohibited transactions Yes
₱2,000,000
₱40,000 to
Possession of prohibited interest by a public officer Yes
₱200,000
₱40,000 to
Failure of accountable officer to render accounts Yes
₱1,200,000
Failure of a responsible public officer to render accounts before leaving ₱40,000 to Temporary special
Yes
the country ₱200,000 disqualification
5% to 25% of the
Failure to make delivery of public funds or property sum that was not Yes
delivered
Temporary special
disqualification in its
If the fugitive shall have been sentenced
maximum period to Yes
Conniving with or by final judgment to any penalty
perpetual special
consenting to evasion of disqualification
prisoners
If the fugitive shall not have been finally
Temporary special
convicted but only held as a detention Yes
disqualification
prisoner
Temporary special
Evasion of prisoners through negligence Yes
disqualification
Escape of prisoner under the custody of a person not a public officer Same as the evasion of prisoners for public officers, only that it is one degree lower.
Temporary special
Officer breaking seal ₱400,000 Yes
disqualification
Temporary special
Opening of closed documents ₱400,000 Yes
disqualification
Perpetual special
When serious damage is caused ₱400,000 Yes
Revelation of secrets by an disqualification
officer
Temporary special
When damage is not serious ₱100,000 Yes
disqualification
Temporary special
Open disobedience to a judgment ₱200,000 disqualification in its Yes
maximum period
Disobedience to order of superior officers, when said order was Perpetual special
Yes
suspended by inferior officer disqualification
Perpetual special
Refusal of assistance of a When serious damage is caused ₱200,000 Yes
disqualification
public officer
When damage is not serious ₱100,000 Yes
Special temporary
Prolonging performance of duties and powers of a public officer ₱100,000 disqualification in its Yes
minimum period
Parricide Yes
Murder Yes
Homicide Yes
Frustrated parricide, murder or homicide Same as respective punishments, only that it is one degree lower.
Rape, when offender has When the rape is committed in full view
carnal knowledge of a of the spouse, parent, any of the children
Yes
woman or other relatives within the third civil
degree of consanguinity
₱40,000 to
Theft of the property of the National Library and National Museum Yes
₱100,000
Adultery Yes
Temporary absolute
If a public officer
Corruption of minors disqualification Yes
All other cases
Bigamy Yes
₱40,000 to
Libel means by writings or similar means Yes
₱1,200,000
An amount equal
to the value of said
Imprudence and negligence If act caused damage to property
damages to 3
times such value
Fine is not more Min Med Max Min Med Max Min Med Max Min Med Max Min Med Max
Aggravating, exempting and mitigating Public Suspension or Reclusión
Crime than (unless Death
circumstances censure disqualification perpetua
specified) Arresto menor Arresto mayor Prisión correccional Prisión mayor Reclusión temporal
Other penalties
Qualified bribery: If any public officer is entrusted with law enforcement and he refrains from arresting or prosecuting an offender who has committed a crime punishable by reclusión perpetua and/or death in consideration of any offer, promise, gift or present, he shall suffer the penalty for the offense which was not prosecuted.
o If it is the public officer who asks or demands such gift or present, he shall suffer the penalty of death.
Corruption of public officials: The same penalties on the person corrupted except those of disqualification and suspension, shall be imposed upon any person who shall have made the offers or promises or given the gifts or presents as described in the preceding articles. (Chapter 2, Section 2.)
Death or physical injuries inflicted under exceptional circumstances
o Any legally married person who having surprised his spouse in the act of committing sexual intercourse with another person, s hall kill any of them or both of them in the act or immediately thereafter, or shall inflict upon them any serious physical injury, shall suffer the penalty of destierro.
o If he shall inflict upon them physical injuries of any other kind, he shall be exempt from punishment.
Dueling, if causing injury, will be treated as if it's a normal crime (as serious physical injuries or assault)
Grave threats: The penalty next lower in degree than that prescribed by law for the crime be threatened to commit, if the offender shall not have attained his purpose, the penalty lower by two degrees shall be imposed.