Penal Code · English · 2015
Article 263
Negligent Spreading of Communicable Diseases
A person who negligently spreads or transmits, or causes exposure to the spread or transmittal of, a communicable human disease, regardless whether it is treatable or is a public health problem, thereby endangering people with death or serious risk to health,
#is guilty of negligently spreading communicable diseases, a Class 1 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 6 months and not more than 12 months, or a fine of 20,001 – 50,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 2,500 Nakfas.
#If any person who contacted a communicable human disease as described in sub-Article (1) dies as a direct effect of the communicable human disease, the person who has spread or transmitted the communicable human disease,
#is guilty of aggravated negligent spreading of communicable diseases, a Class 9 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 1 year and not more than 3 years.
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