BOOK I-GENERAL PART

TITLE II-THE ACT

CHAPTER II-FORMS OF CRIME

Article 30
Concurrence of crimes and continuous crime
1. The number of crimes is determined b
y the number of types of crime really committed, or by the number of times that the some type of crime is fulfilled by the agent’s conduct.

2. The multiple accomplishment of the same type of crime or of several types of crime that fundamentally protect the same juridical asset constitutes only one continuous crime, when performed in an essentially homogeneous way and under the solicitation of a same external situation that considerably diminishes the agent’s culpability.

BOOK I
GENERAL PART

TITLE III
JURIDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE ACT

CHAPTER IV
CHOICE AND DETERMINATION OF PENALTIES

SECTION III
PUNISHMENT OF CONCURRENT CRIMES AND OF CONTINUOUS CRIME

Article 79
Punishment of continuous crime

Continuous crime is punishable with the penalty applicable to the most serious conduct that integrates the continuation.