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The Contravention Code contains legal norms establishing general and special principles and norms of law relating to contraventions, defines acts constituting contraventions, and establishes proceedings for contraventions and punishments for contraventions.
The purpose of the law on contravention is to protect the rights and legitimate interests of individuals, protect property, public order, and other legally protected values when considering contraventions, as well as to prevent the commission of new contraventions.
An contravention is a culpable unlawful act (action or inaction) that poses less of a social danger than a crime that infringes on legally protected values, provided for by this code and punishable in accordance with the established liability for the contravention.
The Code consists of 2 books:
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Substantive Law
contains XX chapters, 373 articles in total -
Contraventions proceedings
contains X chapters, 480 articles in total.
Extracts from Book 1.
Amounts and damage
Article 18 establishes the parameters for the concept of a small amount of damage.
- (1) Small amounts are understood to mean the value of stolen, mined, obtained, manufactured, destroyed, used, transported, stored, sold, moved across the customs border valuables or the value of the damage caused, which does not exceed, at the time of the contravention, 20 percent of the average monthly salary in the economy at the time of the contravention, as approved by the Government, projected for the year.
- (2) The significance or materiality of the damage caused is determined taking into account the value, quantity and significance of the property for the victim, his financial situation and income, the presence of dependents, and other circumstances that have a significant impact on the financial situation of the victim, regardless of the size.
- (3) The significance or materiality of the damage caused in the event of infringement of rights and interests protected by law is determined taking into account the degree of violation of the fundamental rights and freedoms of the victim.