Article 338. Outrage against state symbols
1. Public outrage against the National Flag
of Ukraine, the National Coat of Arms of Ukraine
or the National Anthem of Ukraine, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months.
2. public outrage against an officially installed
or raised flag or coat of arms of a foreign
state, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months.
Article 339. Illegal hoisting of the National
Flag of Ukraine at a river or sea vessel
Hoisting of the National Flag of Ukraine at
a river or sea vessel without the right to
this Flag, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months.
Article 340. Illegal interference with the
organization or holding of assemblies, rallies,
marches and demonstrations
Illegal interference with the organization
or holding of assemblies, rallies, marches
and demonstrations, where this act was committed
by an official or with the use of physical
violence, -
shall be punishable by correctional labor
for a term up to two years, or arrest for
a term up to six months, or restraint of liberty
for a term up to five years, or imprisonment
for the same term.
Article 341. Capturing of government or
public buildings or constructions
Capturing of buildings or constructions of
government agencies, local authorities, and
associations of citizens, for the purpose
of unlawful use of these buildings or constructions,
or interference with normal operations of
businesses, institutions or organizations,
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shall be punishable by arrest for a term of
six months, or restraint of liberty for a
term up to three years, or imprisonment for
the same term.
Article 342. Resistance to a representative
of public authorities, law enforcement officer,
a member of a community formation for the
protection of public order, or a military
servant
1. Resistance to a representative of public
authorities in the execution of his/her official
duty, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 70 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months, or restraint of liberty for a
term of three years.
2. Resistance to a law enforcement officer,
a member of a public formation for the protection
of public order and state border, or a military
servant in the execution of their duties related
to the protection of public order, -
shall be punishable by a fine of 50 to 100
tax-free minimum incomes, or arrest for a
term up to six months, or restraint of liberty
for a term up to four years, or imprisonment
for a term up to two years.
3. Any such actions as provided for by paragraph
1 or 2 of this Article, where the above persons
were forced to patently illegal actions by
violence or threats of violence, -
shall be punishable by restraint of liberty
for a term up to five years, or imprisonment
for a term of two to five years.
Article 343. Interference with activity
of a law enforcement officer
1. Any influence on a law enforcement officer
for the purpose of interfering with his official
duty or obtaining any unlawful decisions,
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shall be punishable by a fine of 50 to 200
tax-free minimum incomes, or correctional
labor for a term up to two years, or arrest
for a term up to six months.
2. The same actions that precluded the prevention
of a criminal offense or apprehension of an
offender, or were committed by an official
through abuse of office, -
shall be punishable by the deprivation of
the right to occupy certain positions or engage
in certain activities for a term up to five
years, or arrest for a term up to six months,
or imprisonment for a term up to four years.
Article 344. Interference with activity
of a statesman
1. Any unlawful influence on the President
of Ukraine, the Chairman of the Verkhovna
Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine, a National Deputy
(Member of Parliament) of Ukraine, the Prime
Minister of Ukraine, a member of Cabinet of
Ministers of Ukraine, the Human Rights Commissioner
of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine or his/her
representative, the Head or a member of the
Accounting Chamber, the Head or a member of
the Central Election Committee, the Chairman
of the National Bank of Ukraine, a member
of the National Broadcast Council of Ukraine,
the Head of the Antimonopoly Committee of
Ukraine, the Head of the State Property Fund
of Ukraine, the Head of the State Broadcast
Committee of Ukraine for the purpose of preventing
them from performance of their official duty
or obtaining any unlawful decisions, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term up to three years.
2. The same actions committed by an official
through abuse of office, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of three to five years.
Article 345. Threats or violence against
a law enforcement officer
1. Threats of murder, violence, destruction
or impairment of property made in respect
of a law enforcement officer, or his close
relatives in connection with his official
duties, -
shall be punishable by correctional labor
for a term up to two years, or arrest for
a term up to six months, or restraint of liberty
for a term up to three years, or imprisonment
for the same term.
2. Willful battery of, or infliction of minor
or medium grave bodily injury on a law enforcement
officer or his close relatives, in connection
with his/her official duties, -
shall be punishable by restraint of liberty
for a term up to five years, or imprisonment
for a term up to six years.
3. Willful infliction of grave bodily injury
on a law enforcement officer or his close
relatives, in connection with his/her official
duties, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of five to twelve years.
4. Any such actions as provided for by paragraph
1, 2 or 3 of this Article, if committed by
an organized group, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of seven to fourteen years.
Article 346. Threats or violence against
a statesman or a public figure
1. Threats of murder, impairment of health,
destruction or impairment of property, kidnapping
or confinement made in respect of the President
of Ukraine, the Chairman of the Verkhovna
Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine, a National Deputy
(Member of Parliament) of Ukraine, the Prime
Minister of Ukraine, a member of Cabinet of
Ministers of Ukraine, the Chairman or a judge
of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine or
the Supreme Court of Ukraine or High Specialized
Courts of Ukraine, the Procurator General
of Ukraine, the Human Rights Commissioner
of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Head
of the Accounting Chamber, the Chairman of
the National Bank of Ukraine, or a leader
of a political party, committed in relation
to their government or public activity, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term up to five years.
2. Willful infliction of medium grave or minor
bodily injury on, or battery of, or any other
violent actions committed in respect of the
persons named in paragraph 1 of this Article,
in connection with their government or public
activity, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of four to seven years.
3. Willful infliction of grave bodily injury
on persons named in paragraph 1 of this Article,
in connection with their government or public
activity, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of seven to twelve years.
Article 347. Willful destruction or impairment
of property owned by a law enforcement officer
1. Willful destruction or impairment of the
property owned by a law enforcement officer
or his/her close relatives, in connection
with his/her official duties, -
shall be punishable by a fine of 50 to 100
tax-free minimum incomes, or arrest for a
term up to six months, or imprisonment for
a term up to five years.
2. The same actions committed by setting a
fire, explosion or any other generally dangerous
method, or where they caused death of people
or any other grave consequences, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of six to fifteen years.
Article 348. Trespass against life of a
law enforcement officer, a member of a community
formation for the protection of public order,
or a military servant
Murder or attempted murder of a law enforcement
officer or his/her close relatives in connection
with his/her official duties, and also of
a member of a community formation for the
protection of public order, or a military
servant in connection with their activities
related to the protection of public order,
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shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of nine to fifteen years, or life imprisonment.
Article 349. Hostage taking of a representative
of public authorities or a law enforcement
officer
Taking or holding of a representative of public
authorities, or a law enforcement officer,
or their close relatives as hostages for the
purpose of making a public or any other institution,
business or organization, or any official
to take or refrain from any actions as a condition
for release of the hostage, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of eight to fifteen years.
Article 350. Threats or violence against
an official or a citizen who performs his/her
public duty
1. Threats of murder, grave bodily injury
or destruction or impairment of property by
a generally dangerous method, made in respect
of an official or his close relatives or a
citizen who performs his/her public duty,
where these acts are committed to preclude
the activities of the official or the citizen
who performs his/her public duty, or to change
their nature in the interests of the persons
who makes such threats, -
shall be punishable with arrest for a term
up to six months, or restraint of liberty
for a term up to three years, or imprisonment
for a term up to two years.
2. Willful battery of or infliction of minor
or medium grave bodily injury on an official
or a citizen who performs his/her public duty,
in connection with their official or public
activities, and also any such actions committed
in respect of their close relatives, -
shall be punishable by restraint of liberty
for a term of three to five years, or imprisonment
for the same term.
3. Willful infliction of grave bodily injury
on an official or a citizen who performs his/her
public duty, in connection with their official
or public activities, and also such action
committed in respect of their close relatives,
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shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of five to twelve years.
Article 351. Interference with activity
of a National Deputy of Ukraine or a deputy
of a local council
1. Failure of an official to comply with lawful
requests of the National Deputy of Ukraine
or a deputy of a local council, raising any
simulated obstacles to their activities, or
providing knowingly false information to them,
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shall be punishable by a fine of 100 to 1,000
tax-free minimum incomes, or arrest for a
term up to six months, or restraint of liberty
for a term up to three years.
2. Failure of an official to comply with lawful
requests of Committees of the Verkhovna Rada
(Parliament) of Ukraine or ad-hoc investigation
commissions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine,
raising any simulated obstacles to their activities,
or providing false information, -
shall be punishable by a fine 500 to 2,000
tax-free minimum incomes, or restraint of
liberty for a term up to five years, or deprivation
of the right to occupy certain positions or
engage in certain activities for a term up
to three years.
Article 352. Willful destruction or impairment
of property owned by an official or a citizen
who acts in discharge of his/her public duty
1. Willful destruction or impairment of property
owned by an official or a citizen who acts
in discharge of his/her public duty, in connection
with their official or public activity, and
also any such actions in respect of their
close relatives, -
shall be punishable by a fine of 50 to 200
tax-free minimum incomes, or arrest for a
term up to six months, or imprisonment for
a term up to four years.
2. Any such actions as provided for by paragraph
1 of this Article, if committed by setting
fire, explosion or by any other generally
dangerous method, or where they caused death
of people or any other grave consequences,
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shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of five to twelve years.
Article 353. Unauthorized assuming of an
office or official title
Unauthorized assuming of an office or official
title accompanied with any socially dangerous
acts, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months, or restraint of liberty for a
term up to three years.
Article 354. Receiving of illegal benefits
by an employee of a state enterprise, institution
or organization
Illegal receiving of any material consideration
or benefits of a significant amount, by way
of extortion, by an employee of a state enterprise,
institution or organization, who is not an
official, in return for any actions or omission
through abuse of his/her position at the enterprise,
institution or organization, -
shall be punishable by the fine up to 70 tax-free
minimum incomes, or correctional labor for
a term up to two years, or restraint of liberty
for a term up to three years, or imprisonment
for a term up three years.
Note: For the purposes of this Article, illegal
benefits of a significant amount shall mean
any illegal benefits which equal or exceed
2 tax-free minimum incomes.
Article 355. Compulsion to meet or neglect
civil obligations
1. Compulsion to meet or neglect civil obligations,
that is a demand to meet or neglect any contractual
or other civil obligations by threats of violence
in respect of the victim or his/her close
relatives, or impairment or destruction of
their property, where no elements of extortion
are involved, -
shall be punishable by correctional labor
for a term up to two years, or arrest for
a term up to six months, or imprisonment for
a term up to two years.
2. Compulsion to meet or neglect any civil
obligations, if repeated, or committed by
a group of persons upon their prior conspiracy,
or accompanied with threats of murder or infliction
of grievous bodily injury, or accompanied
with violence not dangerous to the life and
health, or impairment or destruction of property,
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shall be punishable by imprisonment of three
to five years.
3. Compulsion to meet or neglect any civil
obligations, if committed by an organized
group, or accompanied with violence dangerous
to life and health, or where it caused any
significant damage or any other grave consequences,
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shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of four to eight years.
Article 356. Unauthorized action
Unauthorized action, that is doing anything
contrary to the rules established by law,
where the lawfulness of such acts is challenged
by an individual citizen, an enterprise, institution
or organization, and where such acts caused
any significant damage to the interests of
a citizen, state and public interests, or
interests of the owner, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or correctional labor for
a term up to two years, or arrest for a term
up to three months.
Article 357. Stealing, appropriation, or
extortion of documents, stamps and seals,
or acquiring them by fraud or abuse of office,
or endamagement of same
1. Stealing, appropriation, or extortion of
official documents, stamps and seals, or acquiring
them by fraud or abuse of office, or willful
destruction, endamagement or concealment of
same, and also any such actions committed
in respect of private documents at enterprises,
institutions or organizations of any type
of ownership, and committed for mercenary
motives or for any other personal benefit,
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shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or restraint of liberty for
a term up to three years.
2. The same acts that disrupted the work of
an enterprise, institution or organization,
or where committed with regard to especially
important documents, stamps or seals, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 70 tax-free
minimum incomes, or restraint of liberty for
a term up to three years, or imprisonment
for the same term.
3. Illegal acquiring of a passport or any
other important personal document by any means,
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shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
three months, or restraint of liberty for
a term up to three years.
Article 358. Forgery of documents, stamps,
seals or letterheads, and sale or use of forged
documents
1. Forgery of an identification card or any
other document issued or certified by an enterprise,
institution, organization, individual entrepreneur,
private notary, auditor or any other person
authorized to issue or certify such documents,
or any document that grants any rights or
discharges from any obligations, for the purpose
of using it by the forger or any other person,
or sale of any such document, and also making
of forged stamps, seals or letterheads of
enterprises, institutions or organizations
of any type of ownership, and any other official
stamps, seals and letterheads for the same
purpose, and sale of the same, -
shall be punishable by a fine up to 70 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months, or restraint of liberty for a
term up to three years.
2. Any such actions as provided for by paragraph
1 of this Article, if repeated, or committed
by a group of persons upon their prior conspiracy,
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shall be punishable by restraint of liberty
for a term up to five years, or imprisonment
for the same term.
3. The use of a knowingly forged document,
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shall be punishable by a fine up to 50 tax-free
minimum incomes, or arrest for a term up to
six months, or restraint of liberty for a
term up two years.
Article 359. Illegal use of special technology
for secret obtaining of information
1. Unlawful use of special technology for
secret obtaining of information, -
shall be punishable by a fine of 100 to 200
tax-free minimum incomes, or restraint of
liberty for a term up to four years, or imprisonment
for the same term.
2. The same actions, if repeated, or committed
by a group of persons upon their prior conspiracy,
or by an organized group, or if they caused
any substantial damage to legally protected
rights, freedoms and interests of individual
citizens, or state and public interests, or
interests of individual legal entities, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a
term of three to seven years.
Article 360. Willful endamagement of communication
lines
Willful endamagement of cable, radio-relay
or air communication lines, wire communications,
or any facilities and equipment comprised
by the former, where it caused a temporary
disruption of communication, -
shall be punishable by a fine of 100 to 200
tax-free minimum incomes, or correctional
labor for a term up to one year, or restraint
of liberty for a term up to two years.
