Article 296. Violation of Rules of the Road and Rules for Using Transport Vehicles by Persons Operating Them

1. Violation by a person who is operating a vehicle, trolley-bus, tram, or other mechanical transport vehicle, of rules of the road, or rules for operating transport vehicles, which entailed by negligence the causation of severe or medium gravity damage to a person's health, -

shall be punished by restriction of freedom for a period up to five years, or by detention under arrest for a period from three to six months, or by imprisonment for a period up to two years with deprivation of the right to operate a transport vehicle for a period up to three years, or without it.

2. The same act which entailed by negligence human death, -

shall be punished by imprisonment for a period up to five years with deprivation of the right to operate a transport vehicle for a period up to three years.

3. An act stipulated by the first part of this Article, which entailed by negligence the death of two or more persons, -

shall be punished by imprisonment for a period from five to ten years.

Note. In this Article other mechanical transport vehicles shall be understood to mean tractors, motorcycles, or other self-propelled cars.

Article 297. Abandoning a Place of a Traffic Accident

Abandoning a place of a road-traffic accident by a person operating a transport vehicle and having violated the rules of the road, or rules for operating transport vehicles, in case of the emergence of consequences stipulated by Article 296 of the present Code, -

shall be punished by restriction of freedom for a period up to three years, or by detention under arrest for a period up to six months, or by imprisonment for a period up to two years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to engage in certain types of activity for a period up to three years, or without it.

Note. A person having abandoned a place of a road-traffic accident in relation to the rendering of help to victims shall be exempt from criminal liability under this Article.

Article 298. Poor Quality Repair of Transport Vehicles, Their Release into Operation in Disrepair, and Admission for Operating a Transport Vehicle of a Person in a State of Alcoholic Inebriation

1. Poor quality repair of transport vehicles, communication ways, means of signalling or communication, or other transport equipment, as well as release into operation of transport vehicles in a state of disrepair by a person who is responsible for the technical condition of transport vehicles, he being aware of that fact, if these acts entailed by negligence the causation of severe or medium gravity damage to health, -

shall be punished by a fine in an amount from four hundred up to seven hundred monthly assessment indices or in an amount of wages or other income of a given convict for a period from four to seven months, or by engagement in public works for a period from one hundred eighty up to two hundred forty hours, or by detention under arrest for a period up to six months, or by imprisonment for a period up to two years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to engage in certain types of activity for a period up to three years, or without such deprivation.

2. Admission for operating a transport vehicle of a person who is in a state of alcoholic, narcotic, or other inebriation, which is committed by a proprietor or a owner of a given transport vehicle, if this entailed by negligence the causation of severe or medium gravity damage to health, -

shall be punished by a fine in an amount from four hundred up to seven hundred monthly assessment indices, or in an amount of wages or other income of a given convict for a period from four to seven months, or by engagement in public works for a period from one hundred eighty up to two hundred forty hours, or by detention under arrest for a period up to six months, or by imprisonment for a period up to two years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to engage in certain types of activity for a period up to three years, or without such deprivation.

3. Acts stipulated in the first or second part of this Article which entailed by negligence human death, -

shall be punished by imprisonment for a period up to five years.

4. Acts stipulated by the first or second part of this Article, which entailed by negligence the death of two or more people, -

shall be punished by imprisonment for a period from four to ten years with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or to engage in certain types of activity for a period up to three years.

Date: 2014-12-21; view: 959