Oaxaca

CHAPTER II. Contagion and spread of diseases.

ARTICLE 192.-

Anyone who, knowing that he is ill with syphilis or a venereal disease in an infectious period or with any easily transmissible disease, has intercourse with a person or by any other direct means endangers their health, will be sentenced to imprisonment from six months to three years and a fine of three hundred to three thousand pesos, without prejudice to the corresponding penalty if contagion is caused, and will be subjected to adequate treatment for the ailment that he suffers. In the case of the spouse, it can only proceed by complaint of the offended. Knowledge of the disease is presumed when the agent presents injuries or external manifestations of the disease are easily noticeable.

ARTICLE 193.–

Prison from one to six years will be imposed: I.- Anyone who intentionally spreads any other disease regardless of the means used;

ARTICLE 275.-

From six to nine years’ imprisonment shall be imposed on the person who infers an injury resulting in a certain serious or probably incurable disease; the complete disablement or loss of an eye, an arm, a hand, a leg or a foot, or any other organ; when any organic function is forever impaired or when the offended person remains deaf, impotent or with an incorrigible deformity.

ARTICLE 300.-

There is premeditation: whenever the offender intentionally causes an injury, after having reflected on the crime he is going to commit. Premeditation will be presumed; when the injuries or homicide are committed by flood, fire, mines, bombs or explosives; by means of poisons or any other substance that is harmful to health, venereal contagion, suffocation or enervates or by retribution given or promised; by torment, depraved motives, or brutal ferocity.