Criminal liability shall only be imposed on sane persons of the age
established hereby that have committed crimes.
Article 18. Age of Criminal Liability
(1) Criminal liability shall be imposed on persons that have reached
the age of 16 prior the commission of crime.
(2) Persons that have reached the age of 14 prior the commission of
crime shall be criminally liable for killing (Article 97), intended doing
of severe harm to health (Article 104), intended doing of less severe
harm to health (Article 105), kidnapping (Article 123), human trafficking
(Article 124), rape (Article 129), sexual violence (Article 130), theft
(Article 164), abaction (Article 165), abbrochment (Article 167),
brigandage (Article 168), major property stealage (Article 169),
extortion (Article 170), misappropriation of an automobile or other motor
vehicles (Article 172), intended destruction or damaging of property
through arson or in any other generally dangerous way or with severe
consequences (part two of Article 174), terrorism (Article 226),
androlepsy (Article 227), hooliganism under aggravating circumstances
(parts two and three of Article 234), vandalism (Article 235), stealing
or extortion of firearms, ammunition or explosives (Article 245), illegal
manufacturing, purchase, keeping, transport, forwarding for sale purposes
or sale of drugs or psychotropics (Article 247), stealing or extortion of
drugs or psychotropics (Article 248), putting carriers or communications
out of commission (Article 283).
(Version of the Kyrgyz Republic laws of September 21, 1998, No.
124; July 8, 2002, No. 115; August 9, 2003, No. 193)
Article 19. Legal Insanity
(1) Criminal responsibility shall not be imposed on a person that
was insane when committing a socially dangerous act, i.e. was unaware of
one's actions, unable to manage oneself due to a mental disease,
temporary mental disorder, imbecility or another mentally sick state.
(2) Court may assign medical coercive measures provided herein to
apply to a person recognized insane.
Article 20. Criminal Responsibility of a Person with Mental Disorder not
Excluding Sanity
(1) A sane person that could not fully realize actual nature and
social danger of one's actions (omission) or was unable to manage oneself
due to mental disorder, shall be recognized criminally liable.
(2) Mental disorder not excluding sanity shall be taken into
account by court in assigning a punishment and may serve as a ground for
assigning medical coercive actions.
Article 21. Criminal Responsibility of a Person Committing a Crime under
Alcohol Intoxication
A person that has committed a crime under intoxication caused by
consumption of alcohol, drugs or other narcotic substances shall be
recognized as criminally liable.