'Enforcement of national penalties - fines' in document 'Azerbaijan - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

General provision

SECTION III
ABOUT PUNISHMENT

CHAPTER 9
CONCEPT, PURPOSES OF PUNISHMENT AND KINDS OF PUNISHMENTS

Article 44. Penalty

44.1. The penalty is a monetary collecting appointed by court in circumstances and fine amounts, provided by the present Code.

44.2. The penalty is appointed at a rate of from hundred up to five thousand of nominal financial unit, established by the legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic, in view of seriousness of the crime and a property status of the sentenced.

44.3. The penalty as an additional kind of punishment can be appointed by courts only in the cases provided by appropriate articles of the Especial part of the present Code.

44.4. To persons, who are deliberately evade from payment of the fine, fine can be replaced with public works, corrective works or imprisonment with the certain term.