A person who copulates with another, by compulsion using the other's material or official
dependency upon him, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years.
Article 154
Sexual intercourse between relatives in ascending and descending line, between brothers
and sisters, and between adopters and adopted persons shall be punished by imprisonment for up
to three years.
Article 154a
(New, SG No. 27/2009)
(1) (Previous text of Article 154a, amended, SG No. 74/2015) Anyone who performs acts
of molestation or copulation with an underage person who is engaged in prostitution shall be
punished by imprisonment for up to three years.
(2) (New, SG No. 74/2015) When the crime under Paragraph 1 was committed repeatedly
or by two or more persons, the punishment shall be imprisonment from one to five years.
Article 155
(1) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 62/1997, SG No. 92/2002, SG
No. 26/2004, SG No. 75/2006) A person who persuades an individual to practise prostitution or
acts as procurer or procuress for the performance of indecent touching or copulation, shall be
punished by imprisonment of up to three years and by a fine from BGN 1,000 to 3,000.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 62/1997, SG No. 75/2006) A person who
systematically places at the disposal of different persons premises for sexual intercourse or for
acts of lewdness shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for up to five years and by a fine
from BGN 1,000 to 5,000.
(3) (New, SG No. 62/1997, amended, SG No. 92/2002, SG No. 75/2006) Where acts under
Paragraphs 1 and 2 above have been committed with a venal goal in mind, punishment shall be
imprisonment from one to six years and a fine from BGN 5,000 to 15,000.
(4) (New, SG No. 21/2000, amended, SG No. 75/2006) A person who persuades or forces
another person to using drugs or analogues thereof for the purposes of practising prostitution, to
performing copulation, indecent assault, intercourse or any other acts of sexual gratification with
a person of the same sex, shall be punished by imprisonment for five to fifteen years and by a
fine from BGN 10,000 to 50,000.
(5) (New, SG No. 21/2000, amended, SG No. 92/2002, supplemented, SG No. 75/2006,
amended, SG No. 38/2007) Where the act under Paragraphs 1 - 4 has been committed:
1. by an individual acting at the orders or in implementing a decision of an organized
criminal group;
2. with regard to a person under 18 years of age or insane person;
3. with regard to two or more persons;
4. repeatedly;
5. at the conditions of a dangerous recidivism,
the punishment under pars. 1 and 2 shall be imprisonment from two to eight years and a
fine from BGN five thousand to fifteen thousand, under Paragraph 3 - imprisonment from three
to ten years and a fine from BGN ten thousand to twenty five thousand, and under Paragraph 4 imprisonment from ten to twenty years and a fine from BGN hundred thousand to three
thousand.