General Part

Section 2.

Crime.

Chapter 4.

Persons subject to criminal liability.

Article 24. The age at which a person is subject to criminal liability.

1. The person who reached the age of 16 before the committal of the crime is subject to criminal liability.

2. The persons who reached the age of 14 before the committal of the crime are subject to criminal liability for murder (Articles 104-109), for inflicting willful severe or medium damage to health (Articles 112-116), for kidnapping people (Article 131), for rape (Article 138), for violent sexual actions (Article 139), for banditry (Article 179), for theft (Article 177), for robbery (Article 176), for extortion (Article 182), getting hold of a car or other means of transportation without the intention of appropriation (Article 183), for destruction or damage of property in aggravating circumstances (Article 185, parts 2 and 3), for theft or extortion of weapons, ammunition or explosives (Article 238), for theft or extortion of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances (Article 269), for damaging the means of transportation or communication lines (Article 246), for hooliganism (Article 258).

3. If the person has reached the age envisaged in parts 1 or 2 of this Article, but due to retarded mental development was not able to understand the nature and significance of one’s actions or to control one’s actions, then he is not subject to criminal liability.