Text of the provision
Art. 302. Robbery in an uninhabited place or in a private building. - Any robbery committed in an uninhabited place or in a building other than those mentioned in the first paragraph of Article 299, if the value of the property taken exceeds Fifty thousand pesos (₱50,000), shall be punished by prisión correccional in its medium and maximum periods provided that any of the following circumstances is present: 1. If the entrance has been effected through any opening not intended for entrance or egress. 2. If any wall, roof, floor or outside door or window has been broken. 3. If the entrance has been effected through the use of false keys, picklocks or other similar tools. 4. If any door, wardrobe, chest, or any sealed or closed furniture or receptacle has been broken. 5. If any closed or sealed receptacle, as mentioned in the preceding paragraph, has been removed, even if the same be broken open elsewhere. When the value of the property taken does not exceed Fifty thousand pesos (₱50,000), the penalty next lower in degree shall be imposed. In the cases specified in Articles 294, 295, 297, 299, 300, and 302 of this Code, when the property taken is mail matter or large cattle, the offender shall suffer the penalties next higher in degree than those provided in said articles.
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Act No. 3815, as amended. Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.
What this article means
Robbery in an uninhabited place or a private building is punished by prisión correccional in its medium and maximum periods when the property taken exceeds Fifty thousand pesos (₱50,000) and one of the listed circumstances is present — entry through a non-entrance opening, a broken wall, roof, floor, door or window, use of false keys or picklocks, a broken receptacle or furniture, or carrying off a sealed receptacle. If the value does not exceed Fifty thousand pesos (₱50,000), the penalty is one degree lower; and where the property taken is mail matter or large cattle, the penalty is one degree higher.
Questions about this provision
Related provisions
- Article 299 — Robbery In An Inhabited House.
- Article 309 — Penalties For Theft.
Penalty amounts. The text above is the article as amended by Republic Act No. 10951 (2017), which revised the property values and fines throughout this Code. Older reproductions of the Revised Penal Code still print the 1930 amounts — for theft and estafa they show 12,000 and 22,000 pesos where the current figures run to millions. Check which version any source you rely on is giving you.
Cases interpreting this article
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