Article text
Transport.
(1) Whoever intentionally paralyses, sabotages or endangers public transport, whether by road or rail, by water or in the air, at risk of causing a collision, a derailment, a shipwreck or any other accident likely to endanger the person or property, especially:
(a) by damaging, displacing, destroying or rendering unserviceable bridges, dykes or jetties, installations, or control, protection, signaling or transport equipment, instruments or devices; or
b) by erecting or setting up obstacles, or by engaging in dangerous works or activities on roads, railways, channels or any other established lines of communication; or
c) by giving false instructions, signs or signals; or
d) by failing his duty or failing to carry out the operating regulations, is punishable with rigorous imprisonment not exceeding five years.
(2) Where the crime specified under sub-article
(1) is committed negligently, the punishment shall be simple imprisonment or fine.
(3) Rigorous imprisonment shall not exceed ten years where, by his act, the criminal has knowingly:
a) committed breach of a contractual or professional obligation incumbent upon him; or
b) endangered the life, person or health of others or created a risk of substantial material damage.
(4) In case of negligent discharge of a specific professional or contractual duty, the punishment shall be simple imprisonment for not less than one month.
(5) Where the crime is committed by destroying or damaging air or navigation facilities or equipment or interferes with their operation, the result of which is likely to endanger the safety of the aircraft in flight or the ship in navigation, the criminal is punishable with rigorous imprisonment from fifteen years to twenty-five years.
(6) Where the crime under sub-article
(5) is committed negligently, the punishment shall be from five years to fifteen years of rigorous imprisonment.
