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Suspension from office shall be imposed for the term from two months to two years in the cases
envisaged by an Article of the Special Part of this Code. For commission of a crime of a minor
social danger, or for a reckless crime with no grave consequences, a court may, taking into
consideration circumstances of the case and the personality of the convicted, instead of
imprisonment for less than three years, arrest, or correctional labor, impose suspension from office
for the same term.
Serving a penalty of suspension from office, convicted may not be promoted in office and in
military or special rank, and that time may not be credited for time promotion and long service
pension.
Article 48. Arrest
Arrest shall be holding a person in a strict isolation from one to six months. (As amended by Law
of 27.12.1996).
Article 49. Committing to Disciplinary Unit
Committing to a disciplinary unit shall be temporary deprivation of a military serviceman of
enlisted status, for a term defined by court, of certain rights and benefits through committing him to
a special military unit with a stricter regime.
Committing to a disciplinary unit shall be applied for a term from three months to one year, in the
instances envisaged by an Article of the Special Part of this Code. A court may, taking into
consideration circumstances of the case and the personality of the convicted, instead of
imprisonment for less than three years, impose committing to a disciplinary unit the same term.
Article 50. Imprisonment
Imprisonment shall be isolation of convicted through committing him to a colony of execution of
penalty or a prison.
Imprisonment shall be imposed for a term from six months to twenty years.
Imprisonment for up to twenty-five years may be imposed by joinder of penalties in the cases
envisaged by Article 60 of this Code.
Imprisonment for men aged above sixty and women may not exceed three quarters of a maximum
term of imprisonment envisaged by an appropriate Article of The Special Part of this Code. (As
amended by the Law of 29.08.2001).
Penalty of imprisonment sentence for men shall be served:
a) for convicted for imprisonment for not socially dangerous, or less serious, or reckless
crimes – in settled colonies;
b) for first-convicted for imprisonment for intentional less serious and serious crimes – in
colonies of general security;
c) for convicted for specially serious crimes or previously served penalty of imprisonment for
intentional crime and reconvicted for commission of an intentional crime – in colonies of
high security;
d) for special dangerous recidivists – in colonies of high security. Persons, for whom capital
punishment was commutated to imprisonment by an act of pardon, shall serve their sentence
in colonies of high security as well.