Article 326 Revised Penal Code

Article 326 of the Revised Penal Code is about Setting fire to property exclusively owned by the offender. It is under Chapter Eight (Arson And Other Crimes Involving Destructions) of Title Ten (Crimes Against Property) of the Code.

Setting fire to property exclusively owned by the offender

If the property burned shall be the exclusive property of the offender, he shall be punished by arresto mayor in its maximum period to prision correccional in its minimum period, if the arson shall have been committed for the purpose of defrauding or causing damage to another, or prejudice shall actually have been caused, or if the thing burned shall have been a building in an inhabited place.


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