(6) If the act under the preceding paragraph has been committed for a second time, the
punishment shall be imprisonment for up to six months.
Section III
Exposure to Danger
Article 136
(1) (Previous text of Article 136, SG No. 28/1982) A person who violates rules established
for the protection of labour safety and thereby exposes the life or health of the working people to
danger, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years or by probation, as well as by
public censure.
(2) (New, SG No. 28/1982) Where by an act under the preceding paragraph, committed
through negligence, the life or health of the working people are exposed to danger, the
punishment shall be imprisonment for up to one year or probation.
Article 137
A person who exposes a person, deprived of the possibility to defend himself because of
minority, advanced old age, sickness or in general because of his helplessness, in such a way that
his life may be endangered, and being aware of this does not render assistance thereto, shall be
punished by imprisonment for up to three years.
Article 138
(Amended, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005)
A person who consciously does not render help, in case he was able to do so, to a person for
who he was obliged to take care and who was in danger of his life and had no possibility to
protect himself because of minority, advanced old age, sickness or in general because of his
helplessness, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to one year or by corrective labour.
Article 139
(Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005)
A person who in the case of immediate danger for the life of another, does not run to his
rescue which he was able to do without endangering himself or another, shall be punished by
probation for up to six months or a fine from BGN one hundred to three hundred.
Article 140
(Amended, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005)
A driver of a transport vehicle who, after a traffic accident in which he has been a
participant, does not render the necessary help to an injured person, which he was able to do
without danger to himself or to another, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to one year or
by probation.
Article 141
(1) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005)
A person practising the medical profession who, if after being asked does not render help to a
patient or a woman in childbirth without good reason, shall be punished by probation or by a fine