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GENERAL PART
TITLE TWO
CRIME
CHAPTER FOUR
PERSONS SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Article 21. Age Limit for Criminal Liability
21.1. Persons who have attained 16 years of age at the time of committing a crime shall be subject to criminal liability.
21.2. Persons of 14 to 16 years of age shall be subject to criminal liability for homicide (Article 91), deliberate infliction of a severe bodily injury (Article 96), rape (Article 126), theft in aggravating circumstances (Article 145), misappropriation (Article 146), robbery (Article 147), deliberate destruction or damage of property (Article 153) and hooliganism in aggravating circumstances (Articles 181.2 and 181.3).
21.3. If the court finds that the culprit who has committed for the first time a minor or a less serious crime before attaining the age of 18 may be reformed without imposing punishment, it may apply a measure of coercion of educational character specified in this Code.