fifteen years.
Article 335
(1) A person who causes an inundation through negligence and thereby exposes to danger
the life or property of another, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years.
(2) If death has followed or considerable damages, the punishment shall be imprisonment
for up to five years.
Article 336
(Repealed, SG No. 41/1985).
Article 336a
(New, SG No. 101/2017)
(1) A person who causes danger to the life of another or threatens to cause severe or
moderate physical injury, or significant material damage, and in violation of the established
rules:
1. uses explosives, radioactive material, biological, chemical or nuclear weapons, or other
nuclear facility in an aircraft, or a ship against or on a fixed platform located on the continental
shelf;
2. releases, pours, discards or unloads from an aircraft, a ship or a fixed platform located
on the continental shelf an explosive, radioactive material, biological, chemical or nuclear
weapons, or other nuclear facility;
3. releases, pours, discards or unloads from an aircraft, a ship or a fixed platform located
on the continental shelf petrol, liquefied natural gas, a dangerous or harmful substance, outside
the cases referred to in sub-paragraph 2;
4. uses an aircraft or a ship,
shall be punished to imprisonment from five to fifteen years.
(2) The punishment under paragraph 1 shall also be imposed on a person who unlawfully
carries on board of an aircraft or a ship weapons, hazardous substance, material, information
technology or other object provided for in an international treaty and effective for the Republic
of Bulgaria.
(3) When severe or moderate physical injury was caused to another person by an act under
paragraphs 1 and 2, the punishment shall be imprisonment from ten to twenty years.
(4) When the death of another person was caused by an act under paragraphs 1 and 2, the
punishment shall be imprisonment from fifteen to twenty years or life imprisonment.
(5) In the cases under paragraphs 1 – 4, the court may also impose a punishment which
entails deprivation of a right under Article 37 (1) sub-paragraph 7.
Article 337
(Amended, SG No. 41/1985)
(1) (Previous text of Article 337, amended, SG No. 50/1995, amended and supplemented,
SG No. 92/2002, amended, SG No. 33/2011, effective 27.05.2011, supplemented, SG No.
47/2016) Anyone who manufactures, processes, modifies, repairs, develops, stores, trades in,
transports, imports or exports explosive substances, firearms, non-firearms, chemical, biological
or nuclear weapons, ammunition or pyrotechnical articles or destroys cluster munitions,
anti-personnel mines and other articles in the sense of the Execution of the Convention on