15 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.

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