Text of the provision
Art. 324. Crimes involving destruction. -Any person who shall cause destruction by means of explosion, discharge of electric current, inundation, sinking or stranding of a vessel, intentional damaging of the engine of said vessel, taking up the rails from a railway track, maliciously changing railway signals for the safety of moving trains, destroying telegraph wires and telegraph posts, or those of any other system, and, in general, by using any other agency or means of destruction as effective as those above enumerated, shall be punished by reclusion temporal if the commission has endangered the safety of any person; otherwise, the penalty of prision mayor shall be imposed.
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
Causing destruction by explosion, electric current, inundation, sinking or stranding a vessel, wrecking its engine, removing railway rails, tampering with train signals, destroying telegraph wires or posts, or any equally effective means, is punished by reclusion temporal if it endangered the safety of any person; otherwise the penalty is prision mayor.
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Related provisions
- Article 323 — Arson Of Property Of Small Value.
- Article 328 — Special Cases Of Malicious Mischief.
On this text. This article is reproduced as the Revised Penal Code enacted it, verified word-for-word against two independent sources. Republic Act No. 10951 (2017) revised the penalty amounts in many other articles of this Code; where an amount appears below it is the figure this article itself carries.
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