(Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 89/1986, SG No. 10/1993)
(1) (Amended, SG No. 92/2002) A person who intoxicates with alcoholic drinks a person
who has not completed 18 years of age, or a mentally irresponsible person, shall be punished by
imprisonment for up to six months or by a fine from up to BGN 500.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 92/2002, SG No. 27/2009) A person who sells alcoholic drinks to
anyone who has not completed 18 years of age, or to a mentally irresponsible person for personal
use, shall be punished by a fine of up to BGN 100,000 and by probation, and if he does this
systematically - by imprisonment for up to three years and by a fine from up to BGN 3,000.
Special Provision
Article 193a
(New, SG No. 62/1997, amended, SG No. 92/2002, supplemented, SG No. 26/2004,
repealed, SG No. 26/2010, new, SG No. 16/2019) For crime under Article 182, paragraph (2),
the criminal prosecution shall be instituted on the basis of complaint by the victim.
Chapter Five
CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY
(Title amended, SG No. 10/1993)
Section I
Theft
Article 194
(1) (Amended, SG No. 10/1993) A person who takes away from another movable property
without his consent, with the intent to unlawfully appropriate it, shall be punished for theft by
imprisonment for up to eight years.
(2) Theft shall also be considered to occur where part of the object belongs to the culprit.
(3) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993) In minor cases the punishment shall be
imprisonment of up to one year or probation, or a fine from BGN 100 to 300.
Article 195
(1) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, amended and supplemented, SG No. 10/1993) For theft
the punishment shall he imprisonment for one to ten years:
1. if the theft has been committed during a fire, flood, shipwreck, accident, war or another
social calamity;
2. if the stolen object has not been under constant supervision;
3. if the theft has been committed by destroying, damaging or undermining barriers,
strongly built for protection of persons or property;
4. if for committing the theft a motor vehicle has been used, technical means or a special
way of action;
5. if the theft has been committed by two or more persons who have conspired in advance
for its perpetration, where it does not constitute a minor case;