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ACT NO. 3326
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ACT NO. 3326 - AN ACT TO ESTABLISH
PERIODS OF PRESCRIPTION FOR VIOLATIONS PENALIZED BY SPECIAL ACTS AND
MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES AND TO PROVIDE WHEN PRESCRIPTION SHALL BEGIN TO RUN
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| Section 1. Violations penalized by special acts shall, unless
otherwise provided in such acts, prescribe in accordance with the
following rules: (a) after a year for offenses punished only by a fine
or by imprisonment for not more than one month, or both; (b) after four
years for those punished by imprisonment for more than one month, but
less than two years; (c) after eight years for those punished by
imprisonment for two years or more, but less than six years; and (d)
after twelve years for any other offense punished by imprisonment for
six years or more, except the crime of treason, which shall prescribe
after twenty years. Violations penalized by municipal ordinances shall
prescribe after two months.
Sec. 2. Prescription shall begin to run from the
day of the commission of the violation of the law, and if the same be
not known at the time, from the discovery thereof and the institution
of judicial proceeding for its investigation and punishment.
The prescription shall be interrupted when proceedings are instituted
against the guilty person, and shall begin to run again if the
proceedings are dismissed for reasons not constituting
jeopardy.
Sec. 3. For the purposes of this Act, special acts
shall be acts defining and penalizing violations of the law not
included in the Penal Code.
Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
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